A
Country Fair Special
Phil Yazdzik and Charles Pfister, the two power eaters from last
week’s show [
E133
] compete against each other in a pancake eating contest, Mr.
Pfister’s specialty. Yazdzik would win
the competition 47-46. Yazdzik received
$100 in his winning effort, and Pfister received a consolation prize of $99.
JE Wallace from DeLand, Florida: "I've sculpted a cow out of butter"
Wallace is a specialist in this very specific art. Between the butter (flown in from Buffalo) and the steel frame (flown in from Michigan) the sculpture will weigh in at 600 pounds. Wallace started working on the project earlier in the day.
A Purdue University professor has a watermelon
that is unusual because: “It has no seeds”
Production
of a seedless watermelon had been a goal of horticulturalists for much of the
20th century. Efforts began
to bear fruit in the late 30s with prototypes grown in laboratory settings in
Japan and the American Midwest. A graduate student at what was then called Michigan State College claimed the first successful one in 1938. It wasn’t until the mid-fifties that the tools
for creating seedless watermelons were beginning to make their way into the
commercial market, so this melon seemed magical to a TV viewing audience. Widespread commercial production of seedless
watermelons really didn’t take off until the 1990s.
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