WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NETTLE EATING
Автор: Geoff Moore (THETRAVELTRUNK)
Загружено: 2025-06-23
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The annual world nettle-eating competition has returned to its roots this weekend.
This was where it all began nearly 40 years ago.
Tessa and Julian Blundy owners of The Bottle Inn, Marshwood, West Dorset since 2023 have now brought this bizarre contest back to where it started on this mid-summer’s day.
This years world champions in the Mens section are Michael Hobbs who ate 74 foot of nettles and Lucy Dermody in the Women’s section who ate 68 feet. All in the allotted one hour of the competition.
Starting in 1986 the competition moved a few miles away after the pub’s closure in 2019.
The nettle-eating competition was part of a weekend long event starting on June 21st, the longest day of the year!
This year, also meant the return of the original competition of who can grow the longest stinging nettle.
The painful competition attracts worldwide attention every year and people travel from all over the country and the world to give it a try.
The building itself was once a turnpike cottage and became a pub in the 1870s when it was named the Bottle Inn.
As it was one of the first inns to sell beer in bottles!
Although not open all the time the owners are working to get the place fully open soon.
This weekend there were 35 contestants battled it out. All watched by around 300 more supporters and media all there to record or experience the spectacle of this unique World Championship event!
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