WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BARBECUE COOKING CONTEST, Memphis, USA
Where but in the USA would you find the World Barbecue Cooking Contest! The country that does everything in a big way certainly knows how to eat.
This annual event takes place in Memphis, and is part of the Memphis in May festival. This year’s grand cook off takes place 17th May to 19th May, and is always the crowning glory of the festival (it’s dubbed the world championship though it’s not the only one). It takes place on the banks of the Mississippi river in the Tom Lee Park, it’s not only corporate sponsored professionals who take part in this smoky combat of ‘culinary delights’, ordinary folk take part with their back garden barbecues.
The competition offers more than US$60,000 in prize money, so the ‘steaks’ are high when it comes to cooking up a storm! Applications have to be in by early February…and don’t be surprised to see grills dressed up as fire engines, aeroplanes and even piggy banks…. after all it’s the pig that gets the roasting! More than 90,000 people turn up each year for the event…pigging out takes on a different meaning here! Smokiness is the key to judging a good barbeque….so the air is blue with smoke…as well as language as the occasional grill goes up in smoke – or cinders.
The venue is not only for this mass cook in, but there is plenty of entertainment to be found on the main stage, including first class music….plus the Miss Piggy competition, have you ever seen grown men in snouts and tutus’? You haven’t?
Well come on down now, and yer hav yerselves as good time…yer hear, sniff the air and smell the smoke, mustard and vinegar to work up that appetite! You might even find yourself on National TV as it’s a big favourite for media coverage – just don’t stand on those weighing scales when you get home
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