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Enter Corn-off-the-Cob Contest every afternoon at Ribfest

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Above / Ribfest is set to host the Annual Challenge Butter Corn-off-the-Cob Eating Contest. (PN File Photo 2016)

UPDATE, July 4, 2018 / The Annual Challenge Butter Corn-off-the-Cob Eating Contest returns for year three! Let the game begin again at 4:30PM daily in the South Park at Ribfest! The M.O. is the same, only the time is changed. Note again: 4:30PM.  Scroll down for the history and the rules!

UPDATE, July 2, 2017 / Let the game begin again at 3PM July 2 and July 3 in the South Park at Ribfest! All ages welcome to a seat at the table during the Challenge Butter Corn-Off-the-Cob Contest! Do you spin the cob to eat every kernel? Or is your technique to clean the cob left to right like a typewriter?

Above / 2017 Ribfest Sponsorship Chairman Joel Carlsen (next year’s Ribfest Chairman) officiates Day #2 of the Corn-Off-the-Cob Contest in the South Park as Curly HAMilton eggs on the competition. 


Amaizing fun for all ages!

Original Post / The award-winning leading butter brand again will spread fun and flavor at Ribfest during the family-friendly competition that provides entertainment for participants and observers alike.

Each day (except Saturday) at 3PM in front of the South Stage, organizers will hold a Corn-Off-The-Cob contest.

On Saturday, the contest will be held on the South Stage at 4PM.

Entrants will compete to be the first to get all of the kernels off a corn cob slathered in Challenge Butter. The winner will be crowned “Challenge Butter Chief Cob Cleaner.”

Challenge Butter Corn-off-the-Cob Official Rules

  1. All contestants are required to keep their hands behind their back as they are given a paper plate with the same size ear of corn.
  2. On “Go,” contestants can pick up the ear with their hands and eat the all the kernels off as fast as they can in an attempt to “clean the cob.”
  3. When a contestant think his/her cob is “clean,” he/she will put their corn down and throw their hands up high. The other players must stop while the cob is checked.
  4. If clean, a winner is declared.
  5. If not, they get back to work cleaning their cobs until another raises their hand until a winner is declared.

Though some participants may play primarily for bragging rights, a prize and title will be rewarded.  And remember, clean chins don’t determine the winners; just clean corn cobs, organizers said.

Look for farm fresh sweet corn in the South Park.

If attendees aren’t competing, they can still get their own corn on the cob smothered in hot melted Challenge Butter at the Caney Creek Roasted Corn booth.

Challenge is the leading butter brand in the West and has won accolades from the World Dairy Awards, Saveur Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. Its butter and cream cheese are made from 100% real cream from its 450 family owned California dairies.

A stickler for quality, Challenge products are free of growth hormones, artificial preservatives, dyes and fillers. And, its products are so fresh, they are ready for the grocer within 48 hours of the cows being milked. Find Challenge butter in Meijer, Wal-Mart Supercenters, Jewel-Osco and Garden Fresh Market. Look for the butter with the elk on the package.

Challenge Butter & Cream Cheeses, too

Award-winning Challenge Butter began more than 100 years ago. Today, it is the largest butter brand in the West and is available nationwide.  Its portfolio of products includes Salted and Unsalted Challenge Butter, Whipped Challenge Butter and Salted and Unsalted European Style Butter. Its line of spreadable butters includes Italian Herb & Garlic, Cracked Pepper & Sea Salt, Challenge Lite Spreadable Butter with Olive Oil, a Challenge Spreadable Butter Flavored with Olive Oil, Challenge Spreadable Butter with Canola Oil and Challenge Lactose-Free Spreadable Butter. It recently introduced six cream cheese products including regular Challenge Cream Cheese, Challenge Spreadable Cream Cheese, Challenge Whipped Cream Cheese, Challenge Neufchatel Cheese, Challenge Salsa Flavored Cream Cheese and Challenge Strawberry Flavored Cream Cheese.

Challenge has not only been a pioneer in the quality in butter products, but is also responsible for many industry firsts including invention of the first aluminum butter churn, lab sampling of butter and shipping butter in paper rather than wooden crates.

For coupons, recipes and more, follow Challenge Butter Challenge on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ChallengeButter or visit www.ChallengeDairy.com.

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