National Corndog Day

As if the Obama Rally wasn't enough to make for a great weekend, on Saturday, I celebrated National Corndog day for the first time. What happens on Corndog day? Well, you eat corndogs. A lot of corndogs. And beer. And tater tots. Veterans of the festival strive for a triple double, that is 10 Corndogs, 10 Beers, and 100 tater tots (10 10 tater tot units). The holiday is taken the first Saturday of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Legend has it that a couple of guys sat around all day watching the games. A concerned family member was determined to get them to eat something and corndogs is what they'd agree to. By word of mouth, an underground movement was started. Each year more and more corndogs parties were thrown. A couple years ago, Foster Farms got wind of this and sponsored the first 300 parties (including the one I attended) to register with the company, providing as many free corn dogs a needed. Later Pabst Blue Ribbon followed suit. This year, over 5000 parties were thrown. Where else but in the United States would there be a full day celebration of something like a corndog? God Bless America!

Links
Homepage: http://www.corndogday.com/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Corndog_Day
Shout out from the Oregonian (see page 2):