Thursday, June 26, 2008
Funky foods on display at the Solstice Festival
Team YMCA used blueberry Jell-O (with blue Gatorade) and Fruit Roll-Ups to create its “Sailing on the Blue Lagoon” entry, which won the grand prize.
Gail Billingsley, the director of the YMCA at Virginia Tech, won the Best Fruit Monster category with “Hannibal the Cannibal” cantaloupe.
Photos by Jennie Tal | The Roanoke Times
Blacksburg’s first Summer Solstice Festival on June 21 boasted everything from a dog parade to a beer garden, but one of the foodie hits was definitely the Clash of the Church Ladies Contest.
The Clash of the Church Ladies Contest had three categories: Best Use of a Boxed Cake Mix, Best Food Landscape and Best Fruit Monster. Groups and individuals from all over Blacksburg competed for the grand prize, a $1,000 purse given to the winner’s charity of choice, donated by Bollo’s and Gillie’s restaurants.
Sharkey’s and Boudreaux’s donated the first-place prize for each individual category, a $100 purse donated to a nonprofit of the winner’s choice. Jason Ryan won with this island and banana boat landscape and Jody Daniels won with her chocolate cake in the Best Use of a Boxed Cake Mix category.
