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National Grits Festival
Warwick, GA · Food & Drink
- When
- April 10, 2027
- Where
- Emerson Park · Warwick · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Warwick's downtown food festival celebrates the Southern breakfast staple with a grits cook-off, eating contest, corn shelling contest, and small-town parade. Held the second Saturday of April each year. (2027 dates approximate.)
The history within reach
- National Grits Festivalsame spot
Warwick's downtown food festival celebrates the Southern breakfast staple with a grits cook-off, eating contest, corn shelling contest, and small-town parade.
Cordele has celebrated its title as the self-declared 'Watermelon Capital of the World' with this festival for more than 75 years, opening with a downtown parade before moving to Georgia Veterans State Park for a day of contests and music.
A ten-foot peanut wearing a crown on a brick tower beside Interstate 75, put up by the county to say what is grown here.
A Baptist preacher with a doctorate in Greek started a farm where black and white families worked and ate together, in Georgia, in 1942.
- The Big Pig Jig19 mi
Georgia's oldest barbecue contest and its official state championship, run in a field off the interstate since two men argued about whose pork was better and decided to settle it in public.