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The erotic corn dog-eating contest at the Iowa State Fair might have to go away. After the topic came up Monday during the board’s critique of this year’s state fair, fair manager Gary Slater said he hasn’t seen it himself. "I just heard it was kind of disgusting," Slater said. He quickly added: "It was nothing that was sanctioned by the fair."
The news was tough to swallow for Steve "Round Guy" Pilchen, one of KGGO-FM personalities who invented the contest. But it wasn’t a shock. "I was waiting for that," Pilchen said this morning in a telephone interview from the Urbandale radio station. "While it’s very popular and, I think, ingeniously creative, it makes sense that this would be just the thing that conservative, politically-correct people would be up in arms about."
At first, everyone thought it was a hoax, but the audience size has grown substantially since fairgoers realized "it’s on the level and there’s some visual candy to go with it," Pilchen said.
"We were about to move it to the Bill Riley stage it was getting so big. The grandstand was next," KGGO radio personality Brian James said. "I got several comments about an erotic taco-eating contest for next year."
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The news was tough to swallow for Steve "Round Guy" Pilchen, one of KGGO-FM personalities who invented the contest. But it wasn’t a shock. "I was waiting for that," Pilchen said this morning in a telephone interview from the Urbandale radio station. "While it’s very popular and, I think, ingeniously creative, it makes sense that this would be just the thing that conservative, politically-correct people would be up in arms about."
At first, everyone thought it was a hoax, but the audience size has grown substantially since fairgoers realized "it’s on the level and there’s some visual candy to go with it," Pilchen said.
"We were about to move it to the Bill Riley stage it was getting so big. The grandstand was next," KGGO radio personality Brian James said. "I got several comments about an erotic taco-eating contest for next year."
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