Notice: The Iowa State Fair erotic corn dog-eating contest may be canceled…

The competition, which is organized by a Des Moines area radio station and tends to draw a raucous and appreciative crowd, is too tasteless, according to at least one fair board member.

After the topic came up Monday during the board’s critique of this year’s state fair, fair manager Gary Slater said he hasn’t seen it himself.

“I just heard it was kind of disgusting,” Slater said. He quickly added: “It was nothing that was sanctioned by the fair.”

KGGO-FM has held the contest right outside the doors of the Administration Building for four fairs in a row.

Iowa State Fair Board President Jerry Parkins on Monday suggested getting rid of the contest, so state fair staff will tell KGGO’s organizers that it’s inappropriate, Slater said.

If the radio staff don’t agree, “then we’ll take it back to the board and see if they’ll be invited back next year,” Slater said.

The news was tough to swallow for Steve “Round Guy” Pilchen, one of the radio personalities who invented the contest. But it wasn’t a shock.

“I was waiting for that,” Pilchen said this morning in a telephone interview from the Urbandale radio station. “While it’s very popular and, I think, ingeniously creative, it makes sense that this would be just the thing that conservative, politically-correct people would be up in arms about.”

Pilchen said they don’t intend to go away quietly.

“I would hate for it to have to end, because it’s gained so much notoriety,” he said. “Our take on it is that we’d like to continue to do it and will, up until the state fair board tells us we can’t.”

Competitors — so far it’s only been women, and all were required to be at least 18 — are given 30 seconds to demonstrate erotic techniques on the staple state fair treat.

“We stress technique,” Pilchen said. “There’s a lot of simulation.”

Condiments are available if the women want to get creative, he said. “We had ketchup and mustard, but the big hit was mayonnaise.”

Mayonnaise.  Right.  Good thing they weren’t running a booth advocating same sex marriage or the radio station would have been boycotted, their advertisers would have dropped them like flies, and the DJs run out of town on a rail…