The erotic corn dog-eating contest at the Iowa State Fair might have to go away.
The competition, which is organized by a Des Moines area radio station and tends to draw a raucous and appreciative crowd, is too tasteless, according to at least one fair board member.
KGGO-FM has held the contest right outside the doors of the Administration Building for four fairs in a row.
The news was tough to swallow for Steve “Round Guy” Pilchen, one of the radio personalities who invented the contest. But it wasn’t a shock.
“I was waiting for that,” Pilchen said this morning in a telephone interview from the Urbandale radio station. “While it’s very popular and, I think, ingeniously creative, it makes sense that this would be just the thing that conservative, politically-correct people would be up in arms about.”
“I would hate for it to have to end, because it’s gained so much notoriety,” he said. “Our take on it is that we’d like to continue to do it and will, up until the state fair board tells us we can’t.”
Competitors — so far it’s only been women, and all were required to be at least 18 — are given 30 seconds to demonstrate erotic techniques on the staple state fair treat.
“We stress technique,” Pilchen said. “There’s a lot of simulation.”
Condiments are available if the women want to get creative, he said. “We had ketchup and mustard, but the big hit was mayonnaise.”
Source
