Welcome to the Official National Corndog Day Web Site
AN AMERICAN TRADITION CONTINUES ON MARCH 17TH 2007
The 14th Annual Celebration is happening, so get your party applications in, your party hats on, your stomach emptied, and your sense of proportions out of whack.
What is National Corndog Day?
For those of you who may be first timers at this grand event, let us describe it as the happiest day of basketball and meats on sticks that you'll ever have. National Corndog Day coincides with the Saturday of the final 32 teams in NCAA basketball tournament (this year it’s March 17th). This Saturday is the only day all year that one can watch a quadruple-header of college basketball games (that’s a good 7-8 hours of college hoops) from start to finish without having to change the channel. NCD officially starts with the tip-off of the first game – 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern. To help pass the time, have fun with our friends, and to celebrate being blessed with such a thing as a college basketball tournament, we eat Corndogs.! Lots of Corndogs...
What do you actually do on National Corndog Day?
We've found over the years that nothing compliments the taste of corndogs better than some toasty tater tots and some domestic brew. We’ve also found in years past, due to the creative and competitive (and perhaps masochistic) nature of NCD participants, statistics tracking the sheer numbers of corndogs, tater tots, and beer consumed at the parties, has become a necessary evil.
It is of great honor on NCD to complete the perhaps not so aptly named, "triple-double." If over the course of National Corndog Day, at an official NCD party, you consume 10 Foster Farms corndogs, 10 Pabst Blue Ribbon beers, and 10 "units" of tater tots (100 tots total) you have achieved the notorious "triple-double." It is a feat that has been seldom accomplished. For those a little wary of being able to complete the "triple-double," completing a "double-double" (choose which two) is also still a respectable feat.
Sounds great! How do I participate?
Want to participate in this year’s NCD? You’ve got two options:
- Attend an established National Corndog Day celebration. Check out the list below to find the closest public NCD celebration near you.
- Host your own NCD celebration. Hosting a NCD celebration of your own is easy! You just need the following:
- Friends
- TV with cable or satellite
- An oven or microwave
- One or more couches, lazyboys, beanbags, or other comfortable seating
- A bunch of corndogs (Foster Farms recommended)
- A bunch of tater tots
- A bunch of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer (in a can) -- or other suitable age-appropriate carbonated beverage
- Plain yellow mustard and ketchup
- NCD 2007 tally sheet – to keep tabs on your participants stats
To get listed on the site, please follow the instructions in the FAQ.
Our Sponsors: Foster Farms and Pabst Blue Ribbon
Mmm, good. We at National Corndog Day have been proud to call the generous souls at Foster Farms our sponsors since 2000, when they agreed to donate a limited amount of corndogs to each of the official parties that were held across the United States. Each year since then, they're upping the ante. We can't guarantee corndogs to every party, but Foster Farms generosity is always incredible and greatly appreciated. Thanks Foster Farms!
In 2008, we are lucky enough to welcome a new sponsor, Pabst Blue Ribbon. PBR's history, culture, and support of local events and institutions makes it a terrific fit for NCD. Welcome aboard!
It is with great hope that this website will bring much enthusiasm, and credibility to efforts to further promote National Corndog day. Please tell your friends about it, and help promote what will soon become America's favorite new holiday. Feel free to contact us and let us know what you think of our site, or if you have any suggestions, links, or information that we'd be interested in.
We hope to see you out there this year!