File photo of a street food chef cooking jerk chicken (© Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

There's still time to enter this 'Jerk-Off' contest

6/13/2012

This weekend, Kalamazoo, Michigan will host a"Jerk-Off" contest and -- wait ... what? No! We're talking about Caribbean-style cuisine, obviously. Food vendors at the city's 17th Annual Island Fest will each have two hours to prepare their best jerk chicken and an "island" side dish. The provocatively-named cooking competition is just one of the events featured during IslandFest, a three-night steel drum-and-dreadlock-filled reggae celebration. Although the festival's website does have an informative FAQ section, they don't address one of the more pressing questions about the cooking portion. "Can you go blind from participating in this contest?" one commenter asked. Good luck, jerks, we're pulling for you!

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Is the contest name inventive or immature?