I remember a couple years ago that they sent a letter out to all of us judges to join the MBA and send in dues and we would get a newsletter and feel good about pork?
I guess it was largely ignored.
This is the first year ,of 30 ?,the Big Pig Jig is charging to judge.
They always provide more than the judges can handle,so it might be ok.
We're taking a busman's holiday to go judge it.
Lots of friends and neat things to see.
The Memphis fee is just one of many reasons we don't do memphis-itself,or The Best of the Best in Douglas,Ga.
I know that it has become so expensive to cook MIM that Fl has gone from an MIM state to maybe one a year.