Not quite, BUT the traditional rules are being bent a bit this year.
I asked DTSF recently about the traditional rule of having a beef patty base and if that still applies? They told me that since the Cattleman’s Foundation no longer sponsors the event they have dropped those parameters.
Good to know. I have bugged DTSF for years to bend the rules anyway and allow restaurants to make their burger patty out of any protein base (fish, fowl, beef, pork, lamb, plant, wild game, etc.) can you imagine the concoctions? Nothing beats a lamb burger with tzatziki and feta!
This year one participant is offering a 100% Bison patty (don’t get it cooked over medium rare, or it will taste like a shoe) and another participant, while using beef, is offering a sloppy joe on a hoagie.
Like I said, I am all for dropping the beef patty rule, but it would have been nice to know that before this year’s battle has begun, you wonder what if the participants knew?