Everything’s fair game at the Roadkill Cook-Off

Everything’s fair game at the Roadkill Cook-Off
Joshua Barkley of Charleston, West Virginia, hasn't missed the festival in 14 years.
The Washington Post
By Travis M. Andrews with photography by Emily Kask for the Washington Post The rules are simple. Prepare a meal featuring an animal normally found dead on the side of a US highway. For example: snake, armadillo, groundhog, possum or squirrel.Your dish has to be at least a quarter meat. It should be hunted or farmed – flecks of roadside gravel would be disqualifying – and it must be cooked on-site.Six teams are competing in the 33rd annual Roadkill Cook-Off in Marlinton, West Virginia. There were going to be seven, but the...

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