Linda Christensen, The Minnesota State Fair’s Legendary Butter Sculptor

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

At the Minnesota State Fair, there's a contest to choose a new ambassador for the state's dairy farms. And for almost 50 years, a sculptor made butter likenesses of the contestants. Here's a little about how Linda Christensen and her colleagues did it. Plus: the Instagram account push.pushbuttons showcases some of the coolest and most pushable buttons in the world around us.

For nearly 50 years, she’s sculpted women’s faces at the state fair — out of butter. Now she’s retiring her knife. (Washington Post)

push.pushbuttons (Instagram via Messy Nessy)

We'd make butter sculptures of our Patreon backers if we could

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