Calling all ghouls, ghosts, monsters and zombies for the second-annual Halloween Monster Bash at Tiger Zone and Village Dining.
The Bash will be a costume party in Tiger Zone in the all-you-care-to-eat Oct. 30 from 7-9 p.m.
The entire food court will be decorated for festivities by the marketing team at Tiger Dining.
"We did some stuff last year, had some fun and some little competitions, so we thought we would just take a step further this year," said Gina Wells, marketing director for Tiger Dining.
For guests that wear a costume, it is $2 off meals, and best costume will get $200 in dining dollars.
A Facebook-interactive pumpkin carving contest will allow participants to bring a carved pumpkin, which will then be photographed for voting via Facebook. The winner will receive a week of free dinners.
DJ Tiger Walk will emcee at the event.
"It's just a lot of fun, and we already had students that were like coming in as a joke, to just come into the food court in their costume," Wells said. "We were like 'why don't we have just a big Halloween thing?'"
Patrick Smallen, executive chef at Tiger Dining, got creative with this year's menu. Food will also take a festive tone, ranging from items like the chef 's arm with coagulated blood sauce (turkey meatloaf like a human arm with roasted tomato sauce), maggot pilaf, exorcist vomit (pesto alfredo), fried bat wings (chicken wings with purple hot sauce) and cat litter cake to candied apples.
"The bat wings, we get the whole wing and actually brush them with a dark glaze, and when you cook them, they're black," said Emil Topel, senior executive chef for Tiger Dining.
The apples will be freshly made with a selection of caramel, chocolate and other toppings.
"We just treat it like a banquet the only difference is we're just using nasty-looking food and then having a good time with it," Topel said. "I think it is fun, because the employees get into it too and they're all grossed out. Don't you have a good time when you're grossed out?"
Topel modeled the festival after the zombie marches that are held in England.
"I have a sister in England and they do a zombie march bash all over the country," Topel said.
"They're huge over there so I tried to get a zombie march here. We would go up, around campus, all the monsters, and end up at all our buildings and have munchies around the way. The march would begin at the green space with make-up artists out there and stuff. And then have a band over there and stuff."
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