Last weekend Jonah and I attended the largest Oktoberfest in the US! (That's right....it's here in Cincinnati, OH!) Early on Saturday afternoon we headed downtown for lunch (brats) and a sampling of german beer. Of course, you can't forget the best part of the whole festival.....cream puffs with bavarian cream. After eating lunch we wondered around the whole festival and enjoyed a smattering of polka music. This year Cincinnati Oktoberfest unveiled a new event.....a brat eating contest. Around 3pm most of us attending ventured to the tent where the contest was to be held to watch about 9 people take on this task. The brats were sans buns. There were several famous eaters there that I recognized from watching the Nathan's hot dog eating contest on July 4 including the famous champ Joey Chestnut!
This is the field of eaters for the brat eating contest
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| Joey and the 2nd place eater |
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Mr. Chestnut claimed the crown as
the best brat eater in 10 minutes....
He shattered the record by eating 42 brats!
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| Jonah's toe was demolished by a large man stepping on him :( |
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Unfortunately, we had a small situation while
waiting in line for some famous german beer... |
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Overall, Oktoberfest was fun and exciting.....it got super crowded in the evening so I'm very glad we went early! Maybe next year we'll enter philip in the wiener dog race on Friday before the festival.
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