Lofty Pursuits holds 10th annual Ice Cream Eating Contest
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Lofty Pursuits held their 10th annual Ice Cream Eating Contest on Sunday afternoon, in honor of National Ice Cream Day after taking 2020 off due to the pandemic.
The ice cream of choice for this contest? Vanilla, which is considered a more stable and neutral flavor. I started doing the ice cream eating competition because I thought it was fun, said Lofty Pursuits owner Greg Cohen, who has owned the place for going on 28 years now. President Ronald Reagan declared the third Sunday of July National Ice Cream Day, in possibly the most boring proclamation that has ever been written. That made me laugh for some reason, that something as exciting and fun as ice cream was turned into boring text by a politician. So, I make sure I read it every year to remember how bad it is.
food eating hol hday of the year, there is a warning for romaine lettuce, don t serve it, don t eat it, and throw it away. the alert is coming after an e. coli alert that has sickened some 32 people in 11 states. dr. natalie azar joining us on this thanksgiving eve. this is is a big deal. sglat big deal. i mean, ats of the talk is we having more food outbreaks, because it feels like we talk about it so frequently, and the issue probably not that our food is unsafe, but we have a better capability now of actually track org linking human ill ness to a pathogen, and the problem is linking the pathogen oto the fod source which is what we are dealing with now, and so it is a widespread ban on all of the romaine lettuce, because we don t know the source, which grower or distributor. and the strain which is looking at is the strain that we see in the spring, and are they wildly different or do we know
in food eating contests, choking on giant shrimp. he lived. he has nine lives. talk about that shrimp, think of the hell it went through. seeing bob s intestines, flying back up. that was my least favorite day, but i owe eric my life on that one. just because he wanted to have me around to beat up, gave me the heimlich before i went. you know, what i would have done, i would have gone boom. atomic elbow. only way i knew something was wrong and you were choking, you were quiet. you weren t talking. next time you choke on the shrimp. the day when kimberly chowed down those chicken wings, in that contest, that was good. isn t the best moment now? i liked it when greg wore the