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‘Buttergate': Secret inside Illinois State Fair's iconic butter cow sparks online controversy
A picture shared on X shows a sculptor applying and shaping butter for this year’s State Fair, and it is going viral. You can see the butter being applied over wire mesh shaped into a cow. People are dubbing this “Buttergate,” with people saying we’ve been sold a lie all these years!