GREAT LOT OF TRIPE AT FESTIVAL

6.30pm, Thursday 12 January 2012 Bulli Showground Restaurant $25 Festival Pass Holders, $30 Non ARTISTS APPEARING: Enda Kenny, Bernard Carney & David Hyams, Gregory North, Pete Denahy, Jim Haynes, Sunas and The Beez from Berlin Bookings essential with Russell Hannah by Wednesday 11 January 2012 bigruss43@bigpond.com, (02) 4297 1777 “Tripe Eaters of the world unite. Stand up tall and proud. Fight the good tripe eater’s fight. Join the swelling crowd. Of  those who eat intestines of the masticating cow. Get your registration form, and fill it in right now.” Blue the Shearer

Don’t be treated like a criminal in your own home just because you have a penchant for bovine interiors. Now is the time to ‘come out’; declare yourself and join your fellows of the same persuasion. Be united in tripe and say ‘Damn’ to the rest of the world.

The Illawarra Folk Festival is the only festival in the world that kicks off with a fully fledged tripe eating dinner.

If you have the guts for it, Thursday Night at the Restaurant at the Bulli Showgrounds is for you.

It is of course the South Coast Tripe Eaters Associations annual dinner. The delectable interior of the bovine will be on offer in two varieties; the boring old traditional white tripe and onions with the accompaniment of mashed potatoes and  gourmet multicultural version to be revealed.

The meal is three courses with a traditional chilled soup and dessert as well as coffee and tea. Coopers Pale Ale, fine wines and Aussie Cider is on tap at the nearby festival bar which will also have fine wines on offer. For people who don’t eat tripe but like to hang around with people that do, then we will put on a very ordinary main course, called grey sludge so that you can enjoy the entertainment afterwards.

The entertainment will be provided by some of the world's great tripe eaters. There will be many more as performers who are at the Festival clamour to get a spot in this prestigious event.

Russell Hannah, one of the world’s great authorities on tripe eating, will as usual host the dinner. Russell has a black belt in tripe eating having amazed the audience by downing twelve helpings at the recent World Tripe Eating Championship in Sierra Leone. There is a rumour that triping is being considered by the Poms as an event in the 2012 Olympics. It’d have to be better than synchronised swimming anyway.

The cost of the night and entertainment is $25 with a Season or Weekend ticket or $30 without one.

Bookings are essential. Contact Russell on (02) 42971777 by Wed Jan 11th.

Cheers!

Russell Hannah, bigruss43@bigpond.com, (02) 4297 1777