2019 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Gold Buckle Foodie Award Winners

Each year the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo awards the Gold Buckle Foodie Awards.

If you stop by the Social Station, by Hall D in NRG Center, you can pick up a card to punch at each restaurant…. and earn prizes:

• 4 Stamps = Koozie
• 8 Stamps = T-shirt and pin

The 2019 winners include:

• Best Food-on-a-Stick: “Bacon Wrapped Pecan Smoked Sausage” – Holmes Smokehouse (RP60)
• Best Value: “Chicken and Ribs Platter” – Salt Grass (L0063)
• Best New Flavor: “Smoorcookie” – Totally Baked Cookie Joint (Carnival)
• Best Dessert: “Cookie Dough Parfait” – Aunt Edmoes Cookies (CD205)
• Best Fried Food: “Minnechocolate Pie” – The Original Minneapple Pie (CD202)
• Best Specialty Food: “Chocolate Cobbler” – All of Us (E12107)
• Classic Fair Food: “Hot Crunchy Cheetos Cotton Candy” – The Candy Factory (Carnival)
• Most Creative Food: “Unicorn Float” – The Candy Factory (The Junction)