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An icon turns 20

ST. FRANCIS – No one predicted that a strange, wedge-shaped chunk of yellow foam would someday symbolize a state and its way of life.

That includes Ralph Bruno, the 45-year-old guy who invented the Cheesehead, which is in its 20th year of production.

Ruth Olson, a folklorist at the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, is quoted.