[CH] Bowers Chile Fest wrap up
=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:38:53 -0400
All you folks who could have attended the Chile Festival in Bowers really
missed a great time! Dave Hendricks and his wife, Jeff and Tammy Porter,
Karen Stober, Andy Barnhart and his son Doug, Chip Welch and my Bro Rich
attended. Chip was there vending for Red Lion and Rich drove 4 hours from
Virginia on his motorcycle.
It attained full Hotluck status!
There were close to 10 thousand folks enjoying the food, pepper products,
crafts, music and sampling dozens of heirloom chiles and tomatoes in the
local fields. We also continued in the tradition of Jeff and Tammy
serving drinks from the wet bar in the trunk of their car. By far the most
entertaining part was when Jeff goaded Doug Barnhart into entering in the
jalapeno eating contest. He signed up at the last minute and vied with 10
other folks to see how many jalepenos they could eat in 30 seconds.
Naturally after sending most of the day warming up on various habs and
such, he swept the contest and set a new Bowers record of 8 chiles in 30
seconds!
He won a big honking trophy and a weekend at a resort hotel, was
interviewed by a local newspaper and was generally a local celebrity. Of
course he had been cheered on by the ChileHeads contingent who promtly
began horning in on the glory, and were soon swaggering along not unlike
the posse of a celebrity rap singer, bumping old ladies, little kids and
autograph seekers out of Dougs way...
Well... maybe it wasn't quite that intense...
We still had a good time! And ultimately we retired to the Bowers Tavern
for a few cold Yeunglings...
pictures will be forthcoming...
=Mark "Runs With Scissors" Stevens
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