Ready to stuff your face with burgers until you can no longer walk and have to roll home?

The eighth annual Delaware Burger Battle will be held from noon to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 24, 2019, at Rockford Park, 2000 Lookout Drive, and the competition has, to date, served up 22,000 burgers. However, in doing so, they've also managed to raise more than $70,000 for charity to help feed those in need.

"We've always benefited charities that address food insecurity," Burger Battle founder JulieAnne Cross told Andrew Sgroi on WDEL's Del-AWARE Tuesday. "A couple of years ago, [assisting the] Food Bank became an opportunity for us to do two things: obviously, they feed people nutritious foods...it's a food pantry, but they have lots of other programs--I've seen a backpack program, financial literacy. But the real thing that hooked me was, they have a program that puts people through cooking education, and they go for 12 weeks, and they come out with their SafeServ certification, and they can cook. They can go into a kitchen...so they leave with a network of people and skills. Imagine, here, you go to the food bank, and maybe you are struggling as a family and you've got to feed your little kids and your husband or wife, or maybe it's really a time you need something new in your life because the path you've been on maybe isn't working out...I don't have the money to go to a culinary school. Well, food bank helps get scholarships for people to go through this program and I think, for the most art, most of them are fully covered financially to get through this."

It also aids the ProStart program in 18 Delaware schools, which prepares students to go straight into a kitchen or culinary school when they graduate high school. The focus in both instances being, teach a man how to fish--or how to prepare one, at least--and you can feed him for a lifetime.

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The Delaware Burger Battle pits a number of the area's best burger options against each other, and those who purchase tickets to the battle can try unlimited samples of each variety before casting a vote. There are also a panel of judges, so two trophies will be awarded: a People's Choice and a selection by the judges for the Critic's Choice. A third trophy, Best Alternative Burger, will also be awarded.

This year, there's some fresh takes in addition to past title holders defending their wins.

"We've got a couple newbies. Uncle John's BBQ Stand was in the grilled cheese battle back in May, but this is their first Burger Battle, and they're super cool," The Green Stinger came out late...UDairy Creamery & Market is participating this year, and I heard from day one they had a great burger."

They'll join Ted's Montana Grille, 2 Fat Guys American Grill, Metro Pub & Grill, Grain Craft Bar & Kitchen, Farmer & The Cow, Ernest & Scott Taproom, Lefty's Alley & Eats, Maiale, 2018 Best Alternative Burger winner Home Grown Cafe, 2018 Critic's Choice winner Chelsea Tavern, and 2018 People's Choice winner Red Fire Grill Steakhouse.

For those ready to eat--and eat and eat--all for a cause good enough to erase any guilt--get your tickets right here.