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The Loris Bog-Off Festival got its start in 1980 with a chicken bog cooking contest as the main event, and the competition has been a part of the festival ever since. The festival attracts visitors by the thousands to celebrate this southern delicacy.

Chicken Bog chefs will enter the festival grounds as early as 6 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 for the 45th consecutive festival that鈥檚 held rain or shine in downtown Loris.

The contestants will be packing chicken, smoked sausage, rice and all the little extras that make their entry unique. It鈥檚 a traditional dish made for the masses in northeastern South Carolina, often when neighbors come over to help with the harvest.

They鈥檒l cook their bog onsite, side-by-side, along Meeting Street.

And from there it鈥檚 in the hands of the judges.

Samples will be collected at noon, and the panel of six judges, who change every year, will render their verdict to be read aloud on the festival main stage at 3:15 p.m.

The winner will get $1,000 and a really big trophy. Second place also gets a big trophy, plus $500.

Attendees also get to have a say, as long as they鈥檙e one of the 250 who line up early enough to buy a $5 sample ticket.

After trying all 20 of the entries, they鈥檒l get to the vote for the People鈥檚 Choice Award, which also earns a really big trophy, plus $250.

鈥淵ou鈥檒l start getting full after about 10 samples,鈥� said Loris Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Samantha Norris, the driving force behind the festival.

And if you can鈥檛 get a people鈥檚 choice ticket, don鈥檛 worry. The chamber of commerce sells chicken bog for $10 a plate at the festival, and the dish will also be served by assorted restaurants in town.

The cooking competition is fierce but friendly, with 鈥渁 whole year of bragging rights鈥� on the line, Norris said.

Pepper Lilly of Murrells Inlet won the last two chicken bog cooking contests, and will be going for a three-peat, which would be a first for the Bog-Off.

Aubrey Johnson was the first two-time winner, earning the title in 1983 and 1988.

Five other contestants, including Lilly, have won back-to-back titles 鈥� Joseph Enzor (1989/1990), Ski Smolenski (1992/1993), Ronald Ward (2015/2016), and Paul Lawson (2008/2009). But Lawson gets an asterisk, after teaming with Tony Jordan for the 2008 Top Bog.

If there were a Bog-off Hall of Fame, Enzor would have his own wing. He won four titles over a span of 10 years, adding wins in 1996 and 1988 to his earlier two-year run.

The Bog-Off cook-off is one of five competitions at the annual festival. There is also a 5K run, a car show, a chicken clucking contest and a Mt. Dew chugging competition.

There are also several hundred vendors, a pair of kids play areas and live entertainment on two stages.

The festival runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is where you find it.

For more about the festival and chicken bog, see the festival tabloid inserted in this week’s Loris Scene and Horry Independent, or visit .