Monday, July 28, 2008
News Hot Chicken Festival Date Move: Out of Cluck?
Posted by Jim Ridley on Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:00 AM
While debate raged on Bites about the merits of hosting a hot chicken festival every year in near-guaranteed 95-degree heat, the Music City Hot Chicken Festival quietly posted the confirmed date for next year's event: July 4, 2009. Pluck you, hatas!
Interestingly, though, a poll on the festival website suggesting alternates to its traditional July 4 date has not closed. With four days of voting left as of 10 p.m. last night, here's what the results look like after 186 votes:
Keep it on July 4: 92 (48 percent)
Saturday of Fathers Day Weekend: 24 (12)
First Saturday in August: 21 (11)
First Saturday in October: 49 (26)
In other words, those who believe the current date makes as much sense as hosting the Music City Sorbet Festival in January still have time to mobilize. Activate! Motivate! Initiate! Fight the fryers that be! The hopes of Nashville's sweaty gluttons ride with you.
Worst-case scenario: the conclusive vote must be cast by Kevin Costner.
UPDATE: Whoa baby! Has anybody checked those numbers lately? October has gone from 49 to 63, with a day left in voting! Could an upset be in the offing?
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That's a pretty chicken (pun intended) way to set up a poll to get the results you want...
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Maybe so, but there have already been three more votes this morning: two for the first Saturday in October, one for Fathers Day weekend. July 4 does not have a clear majority: more than half the voters went for a different date.
So if you care about getting the event out of the summer heat (I'm looking at you, DG), spread the word over the next two days. If you don't, start stockpiling that bottled water.
