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…AND THIS TIME IT’S STRICTLY AN ALL-BRITISH AFFAIR THE GREAT BRITISH WOOKEY HOLE BIG EAT MINCE PIE EATING CONTEST WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO WIN THE £1000 1ST PRIZE IN 2007? In the USA it’s piles of hot dogs. In France it’s buckets of snails. In Japan they’ll speed-eat just about ANYTHING. Worms? Cowpats? The more unspeakable the better. All over the world crazy people earn big money by EATING FAST. Here in England, however, what do you think our own “gurgitators” (their word, not ours) have selected as their food-of-choice in this gala Blue-Riband Inaugural All England Professional Eating Contest known as the WOOKEY HOLE BIG EAT?? …yes, it’s the great British MINCE PIE which 12 handpicked competitors, both professional fast-eaters and some members of the public who fancy their pie-eating abilities, will be scoffing by the score on TUESDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2007 at 12 NOON You too can enter now: CLICK HERE Professional gurgitators don’t throw up, and they’re not necessarily particularly large or overweight people, but what they can do is astonishing: eat, eat, eat, without the food apparently touching the sides of their throats as it races down the hatch. How many mince pies is it possible to eat in a session? Think of the dryness of the pastry, think of the richness of the mincemeat, think of how two of them in succession after Christmas lunch is really two too many. The WOOKEY HOLE BIG EAT is a serious competitive event for professionals with a First Prize of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS (and a free mince pie, of course). The Guiness Book of World Records recognises mince-pie eating as an official record-worthy event, and we’ll be cheering on our gurgitators to get Wookey Hole INTO THE RECORD BOOKS! The WOOKEY HOLE BIG (MINCE PIE) EAT is a sensational video and photo opportunity, just a month before Christmas, and is guaranteed to get the National coverage and topical references it deserves! And now some late news, just in… Very late, as it happens: a mince pie recipe from around 1720, when the Royal Family spoke nothing but German, and there were still 79 years until the invention of Income Tax.
Three centuries of mince pies. Front row (left to right): Sir Kenelm Digby's Mince Pies iced with Ambergris Sugar (1670) ), Edward Kidder's Shaped Mince Pies (c.1720), Lady Barbara Fleming's Mutton Mince Pie (1673). Back row (left to right):Urbain Dubois's Puff Paste Mince Pies (1871) and Mrs Isabella Beeton's Shortcrust Mince Pies (1861). Contact Daniel Medley for further details including competitor profiles and photo-op details (and another free mince pie) TEL: 01749 672 243 * THIS IS WHAT 48 MINCE PIES LOOK LIKE
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LAST
YEAR GORGEOUS AMERICAN GUEST-GURGITATOR SONYA THOMAS STAGGERED US
ALL BY HER ASTONISHING CONSUMPTION OF 48 MINCE PIES* (see below)
