Butter

The Iowa State Fair has boasted a "Butter Cow" since the early 1900s. It starts with a wood, metal, wire and steel mesh frame and about 600 lbs. of low moisture, pure cream Iowa butter. Once inside the 40-degree cooler, layers of butter are applied until a life-size butter cow emerges - measuring about 5-1/2-ft high and 8-ft long. Each year features one of the six major dairy breeds - Jersey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Holstein, Guernsey and Milking Shorthorn.

Are you wondering, like I am, what happens to all of that butter at the end of the fair? Much of the butter is recycled and reused for up to 10 years. A 600-lb. butter cow would butter 19,200 slices of toast and take an average person two lifetimes to consume, according to sponsor Midwest Dairy Association.

This week, a look at butter.

TTFN, Fred.

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