National Mustard Day is August 1st! Mt. Horeb, WI - The World's Mustard Capital, Celebrates With Mustard Festival

August 1st is National Mustard Day! The festival begins in the streets of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin - World Mustard Capital. The Poupon U Accordion Band sets the tone for raucous mustard games, face painting, a kids' rock-n'-roll show, and random wanderings through a cheese maze. A futile attempt at seriousness will be made by representatives from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board who will recommend proper pairings of cheeses and mustards. The Mustard Museum will be open for mustard tastings, film-viewing about the world history of mustards, and a look at over 4800 jars of mustards on display. At noon on the street, the winner of the best-screen-play-starring-mustard writing contest will be awarded a $1000 check with appropriate fanfare and hot dogs. The Oscar Mayer jumbo beef franks are free if slathered with mustard (or eaten plain). Diners over the age of 10 who squirt ketchup will be considered iconoclasts and may be booted from Mt. Horeb. But better to behave because all mustard-festival proceeds and donations will benefit the Mt. Horeb Food Pantry. Sad but true, man does not live by mustard alone. So stock the food pantry shelves by going to Mt. Horeb's National Mustard Day Festival.

What? You live out of state and can't get to Mt. Horeb by Saturday? You'll miss hearing the live bands Staff Infection and the Red Hot Horn Dawgs?!! Holy horseradish! Well, if your town is not as progressively seasoned as Mt. Horeb and sadly lacks a mustard festival, you'll have honor National Mustard Day on your own. Seize the festival spirit and throw a mustard party. Dress in shades of yellows and browns. Serve friends brats, beer, and a whole variety of exceptionally spicy, sweet, mild, and hot mustards. If your guests aren't mustard connoisseurs already, they will be after you let them savor the sensational spices in gourmet mustards.

Let's not let this mustard festival end when the sun goes down Saturday. Life is too short to return to kiddie-sweet ketchup. We must keep the mustard motion going! Spearhead the revolution. Send mustards to distant places. Let's slather the country in spice.