Hello everyone! Frank N. Foode™ here to make an important announcement. October 31st – celebrated both as Halloween and the birthdate of this fine blog (what a coincidence?) is just around the corner. You know what that means? Oh yes, it is time for our annual Frankenfood Carving and Costume Contest!
In previous years, you’ve all stepped up and carved yourselves some gnarly pumpkins, assorted squash, and hacked up many other bounties from the harvest. You’ve also donned scary plant-based costumes. Well it’s time to grab the knives and sewing needles for another great contest with some awesome prizes!
Here are the rules:
- This contest is open to everyone – you need not have ever commented on the blog before the day you enter in the contest.
- You’ve seen the scary pictures. Needles in tomatoes, and corn with sharp jaws to bite off your fingers. This is what some people imagine GMOs are like. You and I know better, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun! Take a pumpkin, squash, corn, celery, you-name-it, and carve it up into the scariest, most OMG-worthy GMO you can think of. Stitch different plants together, make a real Frankenfood!
- OR – make yourself a costume worthy of being seen in one of those GMO protests – or a counter-protest – dressed as a plant or something related to it! It’s your choice – and either one gets you into the contest.
- Upload a photo of your mad creation to the forum. Or upload it to our Facebook Page.
- To give you time to upload a picture from Halloween, the contest is open until November 2nd, at midnight Pacific time in the US.
- The Biofortified Blog’s Editors will decide on a winner and announce it within the next week.
Pick some news during the past year and make fun of it. The scarier, the funnier, the more clever – the better!
Prizes
What is a contest without prizes? For our winners, you get your choice of a Frank N. Foode™ or Lanakila Papaya™ plushie sent to you, and our first place winners will get their choice of one of the books on our prize page as well. Now if we get a lot of entries, we’re going to throw in some more prizes just to make it interesting!
So go! Run out to the field and find a worthy cucurbit, grab your surgical tools (be safe!), and make us some monsters! Can you top last year’s winner?
Heh. I just pulled out my decorations for this year, and my pumpkin was still covered from the tin foil from last year’s entry.
I wish I knew where to get one of those pumpkinsteins: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/us/its-alive-and-it-grows-into-a-jack-o-lantern.html
A little pricey, though. And I typically avoid “organic” when possible.
I too avoid organic unless it is on sale and cheaper than conventional food. Some people look at me odd when I say that though. I am glad there are other people who avoid organic foods too.
LOL I usually murmur sotto voce like a crazy bag lady in the produce department: “Where’s the regular fruit. I don’t want any of this overpriced organic crap.” And yes, if it’s cheaper, or the only fresh basil is organic I’ve been known to buy it. I suspect I may have bought something organic at TJs, but that would be beause it was interesting or tasty. I have a great idea for this, maybe i can fit it in before the deadline.