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World Black Pudding Throwing Championships

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Sep 13 2007

Sports fans from around the world competed in a bloody battle last Sunday at the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships, held at the Royal Oak Public House in Ramsbottom, Lancashire.

Armed with a black pudding wrapped in a pair of ladies tights competitors attempt to knock a pile of 12 Yorkshire puddings from a 30 ft high wooden platform. The winner is the person who dislodges the most Yorkshire puddings with three under-arm throws.

The historic tradition dates back 150 years. It’s believed the contest is a revival of old clashes between the neighbours of Lancashire and Yorkshire, during which Lancastrians hurled black puddings at their counterparts from the white pudding county of Yorkshire. Black pudding is a regional delicacy and a type of sausage consisting of congealed pigs’ blood, fat and rusk, encased in a length of intestine.

 

 

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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