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If you’re looking an autumn cuisine destination, look no further than the premier fine dining experience for aficionados of all things automobile-terminated:
Welcome, if you have the stomach for it, to the West Virginia RoadKill Cook-off and Autumn Harvest Festival.
According to the rules posted on the festival’s site, “all entries must have as their main ingredient any animal commonly found dead on the side of the road — groundhog, opossum, deer, rabbit, squirrel, snake, etc.
But it turns out that the festival isn’t really true to its roadkill roots:
…it need not actually come off the side of the road (and most of the judges would prefer that it didn’t).
Sad to see such a fine institution going soft. I remember the days when roadkill meant road killed.
Read more at CNews.