Newent Onion Eating Competition


The small town of Newent in Gloucestershire turns all teary eyed on the second Saturday in September as it holds it’s annual Onion Fayre, and with it, the highlight of the day, an onion eating competition. Volunteers from the crowd compete against each other to chomp their way through a nice big juicy onion, in much the same way you would eat an apple, the quickest being awarded with a trophy. The ladies go first with a freshly peeled 400 gram onion each. The men follow, with a slightly larger 600 gram onion, but despite the larger size, the fastest […]