Starting with the Manzai M-1 Grand Prix, the number of contests named "○ -1 Grand Prix" has increased. The B-1 Grand Prix, a B-class gourmet, is famous. The final of the "T-1 Grand Prix" will be held at Tokyo Tower on January 20th! The "T" you care about is an acronym for TSUKEMONO. In other words, it is a tournament that decides the best pickles in Japan!

TSUKEMONO Grand Prix
TSUKEMONO Grand Prix

The T-1 Grand Prix started in 2010 and is the third time this year. The purpose is to develop the food culture and revitalize the area through pickles, which is the local food culture. Divided into individual and corporate divisions, we aim for the top with our proud original pickles. If you win the Grand Prix in the individual section, you can commercialize it.

Local competitions have already been held. In addition to the blocks of Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Western Japan, Kyushu and Okinawa, the Grand Prix works of the Hokkaido block that have passed the Southern Hokkaido, North, Central and East qualifiers will be gathered in Tokyo.

Kanto individual representative "radish tipsy pickles"
Kanto individual representative "radish tipsy pickles"

On the day of the final, the Kanto representative Eriko Yamada's "Tips of radish", which won the fierce battle with a total of 164 entries, and the Hokkaido representative Makiko Kikuchi's "pacific saury Izushi", which won from the preliminary round in Hokkaido, will be gathered. A wide variety of pickles such as "Gobo and nuts sesame miso pickles" by Sayoko Flavor, the representative of Chubu Corporation, who passed through the preliminary round where high-level pickles gather. I'll move on!

Hokkaido personal representative "Saury rice sushi"
Hokkaido personal representative "Saury rice sushi"

Last year's Grand Prix was "Shimosuwa no Megumi Achan-zuke" by Atsuko Matsuzawa from Nagano Prefecture, and the corporate section was "Gatsun and Spicy Horseradish Kasuzuke" from Hokkaido and the earth. The total number of applications was 118 in the corporate section and 426 in the individual section, which seems to have been a fierce battle. Both seem to go well with white rice ...

This is last year's Grand Prix!
This is last year's Grand Prix!

By the way, this year, the "Taku-1 Grand Prix", which decides the best Takuan in Japan, will be held at the same time. Who is good at it?

It is inevitable that a hot battle will be fought in this tournament, which decides the best pickles in Japan. I can't wait to commercialize the Grand Prix-winning pickles!