IN PRINT: Princeton Townies Slurp for the Cure

When I mentioned to a friend that I was going to the New Jersey Oyster Bowl on Sunday, he looked confused for a second - "What, is that like, an ocean science competition?"Typical Princeton kid. Unfortunately, the Oyster Bowl isn't related to marine biology in any way. It is, however, a perfect example of the small-town charm that surrounds our university. For the 12th year in a row, hundreds of townies gathered at Blue Point Grill on Nassau Street this Sunday (if you haven't been there, I can now vouch for their amazing oysters and clam chowder, and I'm sure the other dishes are great too. Dinner only, though) for Princeton's 12th annual Super Bowl Sunday oyster-slurping contest!Highlights included a surprise appearance by Congressman Rush Holt, a competitor who'd been on Hell's Kitchen with Gordon Ramsay, and a thrilling one-minute slurp-off between the two women's finalists - one of whom had cut her finger on an oyster shell in an earlier round, but still slurped her way to victory with blood dripping into her cocktail sauce, refusing to take a band-aid in case she accidentally ate it. Hardcore? Yeah. Fo real.Maybe someone from our undergraduate student body should compete next year - the grand prize last year was a trip for 2 to Cancun, and this year's was a vacation in the Caribbean. Plus, all the proceeds went to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research. If your eating club serves oysters, start practicing now.More town cuteness available at the Princeton Packet.