Guac Bless America -- and protect us from Guaczilla

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From The Guide:

While millions of football fans train their focus on the gridiron this Sunday, armchair gladiators of another sort will be battling it out for snack time supremacy at Guac Bowl 2009. It lacks the history of the Super Bowl and the culinary finesse of the Bocuse d’Or, but the Guac Bowl is no less fiercely contested.

Founded eight or nine years ago –- the controversy still lingers since none of the participants documented the hedonism of those early years –- the Guac Bowl started out as a friendly rivalry between roommates Adam Pava and Greg Steele, who each claimed they made the best guacamole. They invited a few friends to participate and serve as judges. It was a sedate affair with only four or five humble bowls of avocado dip.

Pava, an animation writer, took second place in that initial combat, which left him feeling less than satisfied despite the event’s humble origins. So the next year, Pava decided to rig the competition. ‘I wanted to make sure I won, so I decided to add a category for presentation without telling anyone. Obviously, I won, since nobody else entered that category,’ Pava says. But the following year his competitors rose to the challenge, and a full-fledged annual rivalry was born, complete with divisions and trophies for best presentation, best traditional and best alternative guacamole.

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--Rene Lynch