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Loris Bog-Off Festival
Loris, SC · Food & Drink
- When
- October 17, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Loris · Loris · SC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Loris Chamber of Commerce has run a chicken bog cooking contest in downtown Loris every third Saturday of October since 1980, celebrating the chicken, rice and sausage dish that gives the festival its name. Dozens of cooks compete for best bog while craft vendors and live music fill the streets. It has grown from a single cookoff into the town's signature event.
The history within reach
- Loris Bog-Off Festivalsame spot
The Loris Chamber of Commerce has run a chicken bog cooking contest in downtown Loris every third Saturday of October since 1980, celebrating the chicken, rice and sausage dish that gives the festival its name.
The county seat fifteen miles inland, on a blackwater river stained the colour of tea by cypress.
A Black businessman bought oceanfront in the 1930s and sold lots to Black families, creating one of the very few Atlantic beaches they could legally use.
White teenagers crossed to Black jukes and clubs to hear rhythm and blues they could not get at home, took the dancing back to the Ocean Drive pavilions, and slowed it into a six-count step done on a crowded floor with almost no upper-body movement.
The Myrtle Beach Mermen of Eastbound & Down played in the Pelicans' real ballpark, and Kenny Powers' season-three comeback was shot through it and the surrounding Grand Strand.