Contestants race to devour the most ribs during an event at the annual Nuts4Ribs charity for testicular cancer awareness held Saturday on the Halifax
waterfront. They are the Lance Armstrongs of Nova Scotia charity rib cookoffs, and they struck again Saturday. John Smith and Nelson Angel – better known by their grill pseudonym The Ministry of Oink – finished first at the Nuts4Ribs Cajones Cookoff challenge on the Halifax Waterfront. The win makes them a perfect three-for-three at the event. “We did not see this one coming. The competition this year was incredible,†Smith said. “Right across the board it was the best that I’ve seen,†Angel added. Eight different teams cooked up ribs for the competition, which is part of Nuts4Ribs, an event started in 2007 that draws thousands of people to the waterfront to promote self-examinations to detect testicular cancer
The entries were anonymously presented to a panel of local judges – which included Metro cartoonist Michael DeAdder (and yours truly).