A tiny Dorset village in Britain stages the Stinging Nettle Eating World Championship, with the winner eating 58 ft (17.67 meters) of nettles.This eating competition involves keeping the mouth very wet and folding the leaves carefully, otherwise the tongue will turn black and lips will swell up.
Cooked nettles quickly lose their sting, and taste like spinach, but in the competition in Marshwood, nettles are eaten raw. They are picked only a couple of hours before the start of the competition, so are completely fresh, albeit with natural accompaniments such as caterpillars, slugs and other nettle loving bugs!
Techniques differ among competitors to get the potentially painful leaves down the throat. The real art to the 'sport' apparently is keeping the mouth moist.
The eventual winner was local Devonshire lad Paul Collins; the 28-year-old graphic designer from Seaton managed to get through a whopping 58 feet (17.67 meters) of the stuff. The ladies winner was 23-year-old Sonia Fewkes from Poole in Dorset, her efforts were 30 feet (9.1 meters).
Source: Zee News
Tags: Stinging Nettle | Competition | Eating
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