Division 500 -- Class 007
The GREAT AMERICAN SPAM® CHAMPIONSHIP

Date:  October 31, 2009
Time:  12pm
Place:  South Hall Coliseum

Spice-Up your favorite recipe into a SPAMSATIONAL™ disk and enter it at the fair!  We are looking for easy, almost “effortless” main dishes that are sure-fire crowd pleasers.  Revise classic and traditional recipes with the magic of the SPAM® Family of Products and see how your entry stacks up.  Unleash your culinary creativity!

Prizes: Two categories, 1 for Adults (ages 18 & up) & 1 for Kids (Kid Chefs: ages 7-17).
Local SPAM® Champion Prizes (Ages 18 & Up): 1st Prize $150; 2nd Prize $50; 3rd Prize $25
Local SPAM® Kid Chef Prizes (Ages 7-17): 1st Prize $60; 2nd Prize $30; 3rd Prize $10

Two National Grand Prizes:
National SPAM® Champion Grand Prize (Adult): A trip to the 2010 Waikiki SPAM JAM® event in Hawaii valued at $3000.
National “SPAM® Kid Chef of the Year” Grand Prize (Ages 7 – 17): $2000 cash prize

Judging Criteria:
Taste (45%) + Originality (30%) + Presentation (25%)

Rules:

  1. Make a delicious main dish. Use at least one 12-ounce can of SPAM® any variety (Classic, Lite, Oven Roasted Turkey, Less Sodium, Hot & Spicy, or other).
  2. Criteria for judges are: Taste (visual and savory presence of SPAM® products), Ease of Preparation (simplicity of recipe) and Presentation (appearance, theme and title of entry).
  3. Recipes should include 10 or fewer ingredients.  Submit your typed recipe with your prepared entry for judging.
  4. Each entrant is welcome to include a “SPAM® Chef” statement on why he/she likes the SPAM® Family of Products which will be reviewed as part of the “Presentation” criteria for national judging.
  5. Include the recipe title, your name, age, address, and phone numbers along with your statement.
  6. First place winners from 2008 SPAM® contests are not eligible to compete in the 2009 competition.
  7. All recipes become the property of Hormel Food Sales, LLC, which has the right to publish or advertise the recipes and contestants without compensation.
  8. All contestants including fair winners, finalists and the national Grand Prize winners shall not make any public appearances or give any interviews associated with this competition that are not concurrent with contest participation, without Hormel Foods’ prior written permission.
  9. Hormel Foods is not responsible for lost recipes, nor is the fair.
  10. Taxes on the prizes are the responsibility of the winner.
  11. Employees of Hormel Foods Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries and families of each are not eligible to participate.

National Judging & Grand Prizes:

  1. Fair contest supervisors forward 1st place winning recipes for national grand prize judging for both Adult and Kid Chef categories.  Hormel Foods’ Home Economists judge recipes on above criteria.  Their decisions are final.
  2. For the National SPAM® Champion Grand Prize (Adult: Age 18 & Up)*: One national grand prize winner will be selected out of all 40 1st place recipes from cooks ages 18 and up.  He/she will receive a voucher to cover $3000 in travel costs (airfare, hotel and food) for the 2010 Waikiki SPAM JAM® Event in Hawaii.  The national grand prize winner may elect to accept a $3000 cash prize instead of the trip.
  3. One National SPAM® Kid Chef of the Year will be selected out of all 40 1st place recipes from cooks ages 7 to 17 and he/she will receive a $2000 cash prize.
  4. Both grand prize winners will be notified by phone no later than February 28, 2010.  National winning recipes will be available by sending a self-addressed stamped #10 envelope to SPAM® National, c/o Blue Ribbon Group, 3033 Excelsior Blvd. #220, Minneapolis, MN 55416.
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