Do you’re keen on blueberries? Share your enthusiasm for the summer fruit and win a pleasant bonus due to a brand new online competition.
July is National Blueberry Month and the US Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC), a bunch that researches and promotes blueberry consumption, is celebrating the occasion by offering two contests to have interaction and excite blueberry fans.
To please its biggest blueberry fans, the USHBC is hosting its first blueberry eating contest on Saturday, July 13: The Great American Blueberry Eating Championship. The competition will happen on the themed blue courts of MPL’s Mid-Season Pickleball Tournament in Grand Rapids, MI. In fact, blueberries are the official fruit of Major League Pickleball.
As entertainment throughout the tournament, pickleball stars and tournament-goers can watch skilled eaters vie for the competition’s grand prize and set the record for many blueberries ever eaten in a contest. And there shall be quite a bit. Earlier this June, skilled competitive eater Geoff Esper won the Mattituck Lions Club World Strawberry Pie Eating Championship by eating 23.75 kilos of strawberry pie in eight minutes. Since blueberry eating contests are latest, there is no such thing as a record yet, but in July 2007, Patrick Bertoletti ate 9.17 kilos of blueberry pie in eight minutes on the Stand By Me World Pie Eating Championship. One pound of fresh blueberries is about 200 blueberries, meaning the winner can have to eat over 1000 blueberries to have a likelihood at winning.
Anyone 18 or older can enter online (and sign a waiver) for a likelihood to eat probably the most berries during an eight-minute eating showdown. Along with fame and a purple-tinted mouth, the first-place winner will receive $4,000, followed by a money prize of $2,000 for second place, $1,250 for third place, $500 for fourth place and $250 for the fifth-place winner.
The Great American Blueberry Eating Championship is a component of Major League Eating (MLE) and might be best known for its annual Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4th in Coney Island. Other eating competitions this summer include the Great Midwest Rib Fest World Rib-Eating Championship on July twenty seventh in Prior Lake, Minnesota and the 2024 World Slopper Eating Championship on the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo on August thirty first.
Those who cannot attend the blueberry contest (or are training for the massive eating event by gobbling up blueberries) can still showcase their love of eating blueberries and win some money. An online contest in July is offering $10,000 to the winner. To enter, Instagram users can post a social media video of themselves eating fresh blueberries in their very own unique way and tag @blueberries and #blueberrychallenge during National Blueberry Month to attempt to win the grand prize.
If you might be searching for ideas or inspiration in your blueberry content, it’s also possible to USHBC’s Instagram page and an internet site for recipes.