2009 Boquete Panama Woolford and Buddies Ribathon

American television has Iron Chef an import from Japan. In Boquete Panama we have the Woolford and Buddies Ribathon, contest of six teams attempting to win the Big Boner Award for producing the best ribs in competition. 120 Pounds of pork ribs and 24 hours later the contest ends in the Ribathon.

As a warmup for the assembled masses, Gene a man told his is not qualified to cook a hot dog in Buffalo New York, prepared 50 pounds of chicken on a grill. Fortunately for him, Carol his buddy was qualified to make an excellent dipping sauce thereby saving him from Ribathon obscurity.

You can observe the effect the chipole sauce has on Genes hair dew. As the afternoon progressed you can see one of the qualifying master chefs of the rib, Lynn, massaging her ribs on the grill.

Notice how she clutches her shoulder to inject spirit from her being into the grilling ribs. Could this be a secret to success?

As the masses watched with laughter, rum induced, and amusement, a situational interlude, the judges convened. The judges were carefully selected from people found drinking at Amigos and were fully vetted as having no bias and perhaps not taste buds. You can observe in this photo Carol and Gene trying to bribe Adrian’s father, the most professional rib eater in the group.

Other judges including, Judge Judy King, Joe Kim, master Korean Rib taster, Horseradish Pat and a mystery judge hidden behind Pat.

The tension was in-palpable as you can see Jayne Ferrell could barely contain her anticipation as to who would receive the judges nod and the big Bone.

Then came the climatic moment, Judge Judy announced the winner. The big bone went to Tom, Dr. Pepper and as you can see here Barbie massaged the Boner Petit before handing it to Lynn the winner of the Peoples Choice award for ribbing us all. Lynn promptly broke out a bottle of Champagne that she brought along for the occasion.

Finally the winners posed for this momentous victory photo after a lap around the grill.

It is important to note that no kosher pigs were sacrificed for this event, I know, I asked. s good time was had by all and for those who saw Lynn at Amigos in the evening yes that has her Boner Petit award she was caressing and showing off to Papa Ricco.