POSTPONED: Cheese Challenge
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Out of an abundance of caution, Cheese Challenge sampling and voting has been postponed until a yet-to-be-determined date. We will still collect brackets through March 18.
press release: While the March Madness competition heats up on the basketball court, the battle for favorite cheese will be on at the Willy Street Co-op with its Sixth Annual Cheese Challenge!
Sixteen locally produced Wisconsin cheeses will compete head to head in a taste test contest to determine the victorious Big Cheese! Anyone can participate in the contest by filling out and submitting a bracket before March 18. Starting March 19, in-store taste tests and voting begins. The person with the bracket that matches the results most closely will win 8 pounds of cheese!
To enter the contest, fill out a bracket with your picks for the winning cheeses in each round. Brackets are available in stores, online and in the Co-op Reader newsletter. Drop the forms into the entry boxes at any of Willy Street Co-op locations by March 18th.
Then comes the best part -- tasting! The cheese tastings will happen from 3 pm-6 pm, Thursdays and Fridays, or 12 pm-5 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, from March 19 through March 29. Stop into any of the co-op locations to taste the finalist cheeses and vote for your favorites.
The person whose bracket is closest to the actual results wins eight pounds of cheese, a pound each of the Edible Eight cheese finalists; in the event of multiple matching entries, one will be chosen at random. No purchase is necessary to enter.
Learn more and download a bracket at:
https://www.willystreet.coop/
Since Willy Street Co-op’s inception in 1974, its customers have invested over $3 million through Community Shares of Wisconsin and the co-op has created several innovative programs including the Community Reinvestment Fund and a retail version of the popular Double Dollars vouchers to provide additional fresh produce for customers using QUEST cards. The co-op has over 35,000 owners and three locations, in Madison and Middleton. Willy Street Co-op is the Madison area’s largest consumer-owned neighborhood grocer, offering organic, locally produced, and conventional foods. The co-op believes that a sustainable local economy is vital to the health and well-being of everyone in the community.