P.O. Box 403, Brazil, Indiana 47834       “Birthplace and Childhood Home of Orville Redenbacher”

Popcorn Eating Festival

Orville Redenbacher Look –Alike Contest is Nationally Known

This contest has grown over the last eight years that the Festival has been in existence and it has been
supported by one of our foundation sponsor Moore Funeral Home and Cremation Services and the
Popcorn Festival since 2003. The Festival does boast that it is the world’s only Orville Redenbacher
Look-Alike Contest and so far, it’s held up to its claim. The contest does offer nice money prizes to male
or female children or adults. The Festival does not allow past winners to participate since each year,
the number of contestants increase each year so the Festival’s board wants to assure everyone gets a
fair chance of winning. Categories include: 5 to 8 years old ($50); 9 to 12 years old ($50); 13-17 years
old ($50), and adults, 18 and up ($500). The contest is a great way for any organization to make $500
cash by entering someone who looks like Orville.

As always, we are honored to have Ms. Gail Redenbacher Tuminello and other Redenbacher family
members come and judge the winners for each division. Each year, they look forward to coming to this
event as judges and no one is better to judge the contestants than those who knew him the most--the
Redenbacher family.

Our Look-Alike received national acclaim in a book “Eat This! 1001 Things to Do Before You Diet”

by Ian Jackman. It listed States and eating places that that the author has visited or was
recommended to him. The article does list Redenbacher Popcorn Festival and it was the only
Festival in Indiana listed. “We were ecstatic to hear about this news and at first we weren’t sure
if this was true” as stated by Glen and Evelyn Brown. We are not sure who recommended us or
if the author, Ian Jackman, actually visited our Festival and partook of the wonderful foods we
offer. But what got the Festival’s attention is the quote from his book (pg 346) about the Look-
Alike Contest as follows:

"For a twist, the Popcorn Festival of Clay County has been held since 2003, […] through [the]
first weekend of October at Forest Park, in Brazil, Indiana. The Festival has its own Oktoberfest
and also celebrates the life of local popcorn entrepreneur Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995)
with what is billed as the world's only Orville Redenbacher look-alike contest."

Attempt to locate the author has been made and at this time, we have not had any response
back but the Festival will continue to contact him and hopefully he will be able to tell us how
he heard about us or if he actually stopped here to eat at our Festival. We still have one of the
best Festivals around and it honors our native son, Orville Clarence Redenbacher whose name
is synonymous to gourmet popping corn.