Headed to the Lone Star State?
This is the 61st year for what’s said to be the world’s largest rattlesnake roundup, and it takes place this weekend (March 8, 9 and 10, 2019) in the Nolan County Coliseum, 220 Coliseum Drive, Sweetwater, Texas.
There’s a parade, a carnival, a knife and coin show, a guided hunt, and a dance, but what Road Trips Foodies are interested takes place Saturday (March 9) in Newman Park (next to the coliseum).
Yes: it’s “the world’s largest Rattlesnake Roundup Cook Off”, a Lone Star Barbecue Association sanctioned event. There’ll be brisket, ribs, chicken, chili — and rattlesnake. (More than 4,600 were “rounded up” last year, and, it’s said, only two “got loose on the floor”).
It’s all sponsored by the Sweetwater Jaycees.
(Photo of some of the snakes killed in the 2018 Rattlesnake Roundup)
