Source: Atlas Obscura
We can thank beautiful bovines for many things: cream for our coffee, butter for our toast, and cheese for our pizzas. Perhaps that’s why they have also been the star subjects of a tradition dating back more than a century. Butter cows, life-size sculptures made out of butter, are still main attractions at state fairs across the Midwestern United States.
At the beginning of the 20th century, butter was making its way from cottage to cooperative industry. New creameries and dairy councils needed an alluring way to advertise their product. Meanwhile, the refrigeration industry also needed an eye-capturing way to expose the masses to their innovations. Butter cows were a funny yet useful conceit: As one writer puts it, “To make the cow from the product…
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