BE A G U SPORT!

Get set for a feast of food-based fun

GREAT SCOT!

It started in the 1970s as a joke, but haggis hurling is now a serious sport with contests held all over the world.

The official 2022 World Championship is at the Bearsden and Milngavie Highland Games on Saturday. Anyone can enter to see if they can lob the Scots dish the furthest.

PIE-EYED

The World Custard Pie Championships is at Coxheath, near Maidstone in Kent on June 18.

First held in 1964, it will see contestants, in teams of four, get their just desserts as they pelt each other with the sloppy dishes and score points every time they hit an opponent.

You get a maximum six for splatting the face!

NOT FOR WEEDS

Stings are bound to get competitive at the World Nettle Eating Championships on June 25 at the Dorset Nectar Cider Farm, near Bridport.

The event, which dates back to the

1980s, used to be held at the

Bottle Inn, Marshwood, but is being revived since the pub closed in 2020. Contestants must eat as many nettle leaves from stalks as they can in an hour.

CRACKING FUN

It’s no yoke! Since 2006 the village of Swaton, Lincs, has held the World Egg Throwing Championships. Set for June 26, it features egg-streme events including teams of two throwing and catching an egg

DAREDEVILS will hurl themselves down a terrifying slope for the traditional cheese rolling in Gloucestershire today, for the first time since the pandemic.

Brave competitors will pursue a wheel of Double over the longest distance without breaking it.

Previous entrants have come from as far afield as India and Bulgaria.

POUR SHOW

Contestants will be hoping to push the boat out at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships at the Rose ’N’ Bowl pub in Stacksteads, Lancs, this August Bank Holiday. Entrants grapple in a pool filled with the traditional hot sauce for two minutes. They are then rated for ability, before being hosed down by firefighters.

SUCCESS A-PEEL

Head to the town of Newent in Gloucestershire on September

Gloucester down Cooper’s Hill, Brockworth, hoping to defy injury and be crowned the race’s winner.

But it’s not the nation’s only bizarre food-based sporting contest.

Here, JAMES MOORE serves up a gobsmacking guide to the summer’s tastiest dramas… 10 if you fancy trying your hand at the onion eating contest.

Held as part of the local Onion Fayre, the rules are simple – hopefuls must chomp their way through a raw 7oz onion as fast as they can.

There are both men’s and women’s events.

BLOOD’S UP

Last year, Andrew Ferrier from Wolverhampton became a two-time champ at the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships held in Ramsbottom, Lancs.

The barmy contest sees competitors hurl the full English favourite at a pile of Yorkshire puddings on a plinth, aiming to knock off as many as possible.

It dates back to the

1980s and previous winners have come from Turkey and Australia. This year’s event is on September 11.