National Corndog Day
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National Corndog Day is a celebration of basketball, corn dog, tater tots, cheese, and American beer that occurs in March of every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. By 2007, parties celebrating National Corndog Day occurred at 113 locations in more than 30 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Australia.
National Corndog Day 2009 will take place on Saturday, March 21st, 2009.
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[edit] History
National Corndog Day was inaugurated in 1992 in Corvallis, Oregon by high-school students Brady Sahnow and Henry Otley. The first celebration was informal and involved simply corndogs and basketball. In subsequent years, National Corndog day was expanded to include tater tots and beer and gradually spread to other cities. Currently, the celebration is sponsored by Foster Farms, a Livingston, California-based poultry producer, and PBR, a US Midwest-based beer company. Operations for National Corndog Day currently are governed by a board of directors consisting of select event hosts (or "city captains") based in various cities across the United States.
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- Mary Ann Albright, "Corndog Buffs Have Their Day," Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Oregon), March 16, 2007, Top Story, Pg. 1.[1]
- Ricardo Baca, "Why I adore the lowly corn dog", Denver Post (Denver, CO), March 15, 2006, Sec. Food and Dining, [2].
- Staff, "Don't wait for the state fair to come back; make your own corn dogs", Anchorage Daily News, October 1, 2003, Sec. Life, Pg. D2.
- Su-Jin Yim, "Every Corndog Has Its (URP) Day", Oregonian (Portland, OR), March 16, 2002, Sec. Living, Pg. CO1.
- In Tidbits, The Gothamist, March 17, 2006 [3].
