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Troy Landwehr makes sculptures out of cheese:

VANDENBROEK, Wis. (AP) ---- Actor Tom Arnold and former All-Star John Kruk, co-hosts of a TV sports show, can't deny the Wisconsin flavor surrounding the baseball All-Star Game.

Not when their likenesses have been captured in a 150-pound sculpture in cheese.

The cheddar block was transported Friday to Milwaukee's Miller Park, the site of Tuesday's game.

Fox Sports Net commissioned the busts of its "Best Damn Sports Show Period" hosts, cheese carver Troy Landwehr said.

The carving "took a couple days, because of all the drawing and thinking you have to do," he said. "You only get one shot at this carving. You can only buy the cheese once."
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http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020707/wwww.html

See also:

http://www.westbycreamery.com/creamerynews/cheesy.asp

Some say he may be crackers ;)

Emps
 
Here's a photo of what may be the weirdest commemoration of the moon landing's 50th anniversary - a butter sculpture of the Apollo 11 crew unveiled at the Ohio State Fair this week.

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State fair remembers moon landing with butter astronauts

The moon may be made of cheese, but these astronauts are made of butter.

The Ohio State Fair is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with life-size butter sculptures of Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts.

Gov. Mike DeWine opened the 166th edition of the fair Wednesday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Afterward, the Republican governor toured the fairgrounds and stopped by this year’s annual butter display.

The display features a life-size sculpture of Wapakoneta (wah-puh-kuh-NEHT’-uh) native Armstrong saluting the American flag after planting it on the moon’s surface as he stands beside a lunar module.

The display also includes the Apollo 11 emblem and life-size sculptures of Armstrong and fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sitting beside the traditional butter cow and calf.
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SOURCE: https://www.apnews.com/c0fe02e98183452985014d5b2d0c153e

IMHO it's a damned good likeness of the three crew members. Anyway ...

Butter sculptures and similar things made out of food or foodstuffs are a longstanding novelty and advertising / promotional display in midwestern US fairs. It struck me that this theme was sufficiently weird to warrant a thread.
 
Butter sculpture turns out to have a history extending much farther back than American state fairs:

Butter carving was an ancient craft in Tibet, Babylon, Roman Britain and elsewhere. The earliest documented butter sculptures date from Europe in 1536, where they were used on banquet tables. The earliest pieces in the modern sense as public art date from ca. 1870s America, created by Caroline Shawk Brooks, a farm woman from Helena, Arkansas. The heyday of butter sculpturing was about 1890-1930, but butter sculptures are still a popular attraction at agricultural fairs, banquet tables and as decorative butter patties.
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More generally ...

The history of carving food into sculptured objects is ancient. Archaeologists have found bread and pudding molds of animal and human shapes at sites from Babylon to Roman Britain.
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SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_sculpture
 
A Pittsburgh area bakery has created a 7-foot-tall "Frosty the Doughman" bread sculpture for Christmas.

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Pittsburgh-area bakery cooks up 7-foot 'Frosty the Doughman'

A Pittsburgh-area bakery unveiled "Frosty the Doughman," a 7-foot-tall snowman sculpture made out of bread.

Mancini's Bakery, which celebrated Christmas in 2020 with an 8-foot bread Christmas tree, said this year's bread sculpture stands 7 feet tall and weighs about 200 pounds. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/1...man-Mancinis-Bakery-Pittsburgh/4171640375713/
 
The Pennsylvania Farm Show has unveiled its 2022 butter sculpture.

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Pa. Farm Show unveils the 2022 butter sculpture: Take a look

Overture. Cue the lights. The 2022 Pennsylvania Farm Show has unveiled its latest butter sculpture.

Carved from a half-ton of butter, this year’s sculpture highlights this year’s theme of “Harvesting More.” Sponsored by the American Dairy Association North East (ADANE), it features urban and rural agriculturalists coming together by toasting glasses of milk.

According to a press release from the Pa. Department of Agriculture, the sculpture highlights that there “is strength in diversity and unity,” and that “Pennsylvania agriculture is present all across the commonwealth – on rural acres and in vacant city lots – and it’s all essential to ensuring the availability and accessibility of food for all.”

Sculptors, Jim Victor and Marie Pelton began work in mid-December to craft the work of art from butter donated by Land O’ Lakes in Carlisle, Cumberland County. ...

The 2022 sculpture uses more than 1,000 pounds of butter not suited for consumption. According to the American Dairy Association North East, it would require 21,200 pounds of milk to produce that amount of butter, the equivalent of one day’s work of 353 cows.

The butter used for the sculpture will be recycled into energy at the Reinford Farm in Juniata County after the show ends. ...
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FULL STORY (With Slide Show): https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/01/pa-farm-show-unveils-2022-butter-sculpture-take-a-look.html

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A California bakery has created a life-sized bread sculpture of Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

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California baker creates life-sized Han Solo out of bread

Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo” is a hunk of bread.

That’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star Wars” character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in “The Empire Strikes Back.”

Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding, baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and two types of dough, including a type of yeastless dough with a higher sugar content that will last longer.

The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The lovingly crafted details show Han Solo’s anguished face and his hands straining to reach out. ...

Pan Solo is the bakery’s entry in the annual Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest. The public will get to vote on their favorites from among more than two dozen creations entered by local businesses. ...

Unfortunately, Pan Solo won’t last forever. The dough eventually will be composted, not eaten. ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/han-solo...ry-halloween-d6f74b54b7c4d1354b371d8a29ec1641
 
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