Vandergrift, PA, October 2, 2006 – Pigskin is once again on the menu during Steelers football season this year, as Uncle Charley’s Sausage takes center stage in the South Side to begin its hunt for the 2006 Sausage King or Queen.

Uncle Charley’s Sausage Company announces its annual search for “Alimentary Athletes” who are first to eat eight dinner link-size sausages during the Company’s 4th Annual Sausage Eating Contest. The first of three contests kicks off on Thursday, October 12th at Cupka’s II in the South Side at 7:30 p.m.

Here’s how the road to being crowned the King or Queen of Sausage works: Twenty contestants will be randomly selected for two rounds of sausage eating (40 total contestants), and the top three (First, Second and Third Place) winners of each of those contests who consume eight Uncle Charley’s dinner links will compete in a grand championship. The first round will be on Thursday, October 12th at 7:30 p.m. at Cupka’s II. The second round will be held on Thursday, November 2nd at 7:30 p.m. at Cupka’s II. The six winners from Rounds 1 & 2 will compete in the grand championship held at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 3rd at WDVE’s Tailgate Party on the Carnegie Science Center lawn across from Heinz Field before the Steelers- Tampa Bay game (kickoff 1:00 p.m.)

All contestants will receive commemorative T-shirts, and First, Second and Third Place winners will receive trophies. The grand champion sausage stuffer on December 3rd will receive a weekend getaway at a nearby resort, as well as a year’s supply of premium Uncle Charley’s Sausage. Last year’s Grand Champion was Bob Kuhns of Vandergrift, PA.