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START Q May 11 13 Memphis Tennessee

Most just call it BBQ Fest. On paper, it’s the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest — the biggest pork barbecue competition in the world. And here in Memphis, it’s a city-wide holiday.

It’s four days, 250 cooking teams, and a whole mess of BBQ on a half-mile stretch of the Mississippi River. This year, Start Co. is throwing our own startup spin on it with a swine-fueled booth right smack in the middle of it all.