GREAT LOT OF TRIPE AT FESTIVAL
7pm, Thursday 15 January 2009
Bulli Showground Restaurant
$20 Festival Pass Holders, $25 Non
Bookings essential with Russell Hannah by Wednesday 14 January
bigruss43@bigpond.com, 02) 4297 1777
Part of the 2009 Illawarra Folk Festival
“Tripe Eaters of the world unite. Stand up tall and proud.
Fight the good tripe eater’s fight. Join the swelling crowd.
Of those who eat intestines of the masticating cow.
Get your registration form, and fill it in right now.”
Blue the Shearer
Don’t be treated like a criminal in your own home just because you have a penchant for bovine interiors. Now is the time to ‘come out’; declare yourself and join your fellows of the same persuasion. Be united in tripe and say ‘Damn’ to the rest of the world.
The Illawarra Folk Festival is the only festival in the world that kicks off with a fully fledged tripe eating dinner.
If you have the guts for it, Thursday Night at the Restaurant at the Bulli Showgrounds is for you. It is of course the South Coast Tripe Eaters Associations annual dinner. The delectable interior of the bovine will be on offer in two varieties; the boring old traditional white tripe and onions with the accompaniment of mashed potatoes and, Callos (Spanish for tripe) in a hot tomato and onion sauce with Spanish Sausage, chick peas and olives. (makes your mouth water already doesn’t it?)
The meal is three courses with a traditional chilled soup and dessert as well as coffee and tea. Coopers pale Ale and Little Creatures Cider is on tap at the nearby festival bar which will also have fine wines on offer. For people who don’t eat tripe but like to hang around with people that do, then we will put on a very ordinary main course, called grey sludge so that you can enjoy the entertainment afterwards.
The Chefs this year are Stuart O’Dea and Steve Lewin recent graduates with high distinctions from Wollongong TAFE’S school of Tripe Cooking.
The entertainment will be provided by some of the world's great tripe eaters. Alan Musgrove who has a Masters Degree in Tripe Eating will team up with Bob McInnes, a famous haggis eater from Robertson, who has a similar qualification from the Red Cow Hotel in Balmain. Renowned Country tripe eaters Jason and Chloe Roweth from Milthorpe won the initial “Golden Abdomen” Award at the recent Country Tripe Eating Championships at Tamworth and will also add to the night’s entertainment. Terry (The Whale) Fielding is making a special trip from Melbourne to show that the ‘South of the Border’ tripe eaters can hold their own with some of the more seasoned News South Wales people.
There will be many more as performers who are at the Festival clamour to get a spot in this prestigious event.
Russell Hannah, one of the world’s great authorities on tripe eating, will as usual host the dinner. Russell has a black belt in tripe eating having amazed the audience by downing twelve helpings at the recent World Tripe Eating Championship in Sierra Leone. There is a rumour that triping is being considered by the Poms as an event in the 2112 Olympics., (It’d have to be better than synchronised swimming anyway).
The cost of the night and entertainment is $20 with a weekend ticket or $25 without one. Bookings are essential. Contact Russell on 42971777 by Wed Jan 14th.
Cheers!
Russell Hannah
bigruss43@bigpond.com, 02) 4297 177
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