Sure, the Delmarva Chicken Festival has rides, games and crafts booths, but Malissa Billinger knows the real reason people show up for the annual paean to poultry.
"We come for the chicken. Even if you're not hungry, you come for the chicken," Billinger, a Dagsboro resident, said as husband, Andre, watched 5-year-old niece Shania Snead of Millsboro win the first heat of the spoon race.
The poultry festival, which wrapped up its 62nd year Saturday in the town where it was born, is the one opportunity a year that people have to sample chicken from the Giant Frying Pan.
It used to be called the World's Largest Frying Pan until some wiseacres decided to build one just a little larger to steal the festival's thunder. But it's a whopper nonetheless, a 10-foot-wide colossus weighing in at 650 pounds and holding 160 gallons of oil -- the better to fry up 800 chicken quarters at a time.
2 comments:
It was ok. Georgetown is a terrible place to have anything due to traffic congestion. Especially this time of year with all the beach traffic. Very poor planning! Don't have it in Georgetown ever again.
@7:34 AM
I had no problem getting in and out of Georgetown yesterday afternoon.
The thing that disappointed me was the fact that the vendor that sold chicken piazza at the Centerville Chicken Festival two years ago wasn’t in Georgetown this year.
Sand Box John
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