Source: Atlas Obscura
Since 1955, the Midwest Dairy Association has crowned the winner of the annual Minnesota Dairy Princess Program as “Princess Kay of the Milky Way,” and since 1965, that woman’s head has been carved into butter.
At the State Fair, one sculptor carves twelve “butter heads” during the twelve days of the annual Minnesota State Fair, including the newly coronated princess and eleven finalists.
On the first day, the crowned princess, cloaked in warm layers, joins the sculptor for six to eight hours in a 40-degree, glass-walled booth. With awestruck fairgoers passing by, the artist uses knives and a floss-like…The post Minnesota State Fair Butter Heads appeared first on FeedBox.