Lower Shore, added another feath-
er to his cap so to speak last week
when he won the 2013 Mountaire
Chickin' Pickin' title at the Delmarva
Chicken Festival, toppling the de-
fending national champion in the fi-
nals.
celebrating everything related to the
Eastern Shore's favorite bird, Moun-
taire Farms holds a competition to
determine the fastest chicken picker
on the peninsula. Mountaire's
Chickin' Pickin' Championship is a
contest of speed, skill, strategy and
sheer determination as contestants
work their way through several early
heats to reach the championship
round.
meat from oven-roasted chickens
as possible. The two-hour event
featured 20 contestants who squar-
ed off in groups of five through four
preliminary heats.
through the other preliminary rounds
to reach the finals against several
former winners and the reigning
Mountaire Chickin' Pickin' Grand
Champion. In the finals, Mathias
picked and shredded 13.7 pounds of
meat from cooked whole chickens in
five minutes to claim the title.
le for each of his wins in the celebri-
ty round and the final round. He was
also awarded a $250 donation to
the charity of his choice for each of
the wins and naturally chose the
American Cancer Society, for which
he has been a staunch advocate.
and didn't think much of it. Then I
won that and advanced to the finals
and beat the national champion."
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