Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Blueberries may be the key to a summer payout this season getty Love blueberries? Sharing your enthusiasm for the summer fruit may earn you a nice bonus thanks to a new online sweepstakes. July is National Blueberry Month and the US Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC), a group that researches and promotes blueberry consumption, is celebrating appropriately, with two contests to engage and delight blueberry fans. To indulge their biggest blueberry supporters, USHBC will host its first-ever blueberry eating contest on Saturday, July 13: The Great American Blueberry Eating Championship.
The contest will be held on the thematically appropriate blue courts of MPL’s mid-season pickleball tournament in Grand Rapids, MI. In fact, blueberries are the official fruit of Major League Pickleball. Fresh blueberrys on the bush getty As mid-tournament entertainment, pickleball stars and tournament attendees can watch professional eaters vie for the contest’s grand prize and set the record for most blueberries ever eaten in a contest.
And it’s going to be a lot. Earlier this June, professional competitive eater Geoff Esper won the Mattituck Lions Club World Strawberry Shortcake Eating Championship by eating 23.75 pounds of strawberry shortcake in eight minutes.
Because the blueberry eating contest is new, there is no record yet set, but in July 2007, Patrick Bertoletti ate 9.17 lbs blueberry pie at the Stand By Me World Pie Eating Cham.
