So, I'm in Starbucks on Friday morning, and the featured article on the cover of a local magazine catches my eye: 2nd Annual World Cheese Dip Championship to be held Saturday at War Memorial Stadium. I flipped to the article and read that they would be showing the Arkansas/Alabama game on the Jumbotron during the competition. All-you-can-eat cheese dip + Razorback football ? I'm there!
After looking at the website (http://www.cheesedip.net/), I learned that the original championship event was held at Dickey Stephens Park last year. They had such an unbelievable turnout, that they changed the venue, doubled the amount of cheese dip, and found corporate sponsors to provide the chips. Now I'm not so sure about their claim that Arkansas is "the epicenter of the cheese dip culinary world", but we had a good time at the festival.
We went around to the different booths sampling the entries (both professional and amateur), let the kids run around on the field and play in some bouncy houses, and then settled in to watch the painful first half of the game. We also witnessed the cheese dip eating contest at halftime. It was both impressive and disgusting (but mostly disgusting) to watch people try to consume 5 lbs. of cheese dip in 5 minutes!
We headed home before the second half, and both kids were already asking if we can go back next year!
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