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A 12-metre-high dairy silo painted as a giant can of Tatua Dairy Whip.
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Big Dairy Whip – Tatuanui
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Site-level location · 37.6242° S, 175.5925° E
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This is a twelve-metre stainless steel silo that has spent the last decade pretending to be an aerosol can of whipped cream.
The Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company's factory at Tatuanui, just outside Morrinsville, has a working silo at its gates that was first branded as a Dairy Whip can in 2013. Dairy Whip is Tatua's whipped cream in a pressurised can – real cream from pasture-fed cows, twenty per cent lower in fat than regular liquid cream – and the silo is a very large version of the product made a few metres away.
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In April 2026 the iconic 12-metre can received a new design matching Tatua’s refreshed Dairy Whip packaging. It remains outside the Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company factory and is actively recognised as a Waikato photo stop.
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Factory-front landmark at Tatua, 3434 State Highway 26. The dairy factory is not established as a public sightseeing venue and no lawful public photo-stop has been verified. Do not route visitors to the factory entrance solely to photograph the can.
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