The strangest championship eating nettles Bashny.Net

It's probably one of the craziest and weirdest festivals in the world. During the competition all participants give a branch of nettles with a length of about 60 centimeters. Then start the countdown. Participants from different countries to show their endurance and courage by eating the stinging nettle. An hour later, the judges measure the total length of the stems of nettles, which were cleaned from the leaves. The winner is the one who cleans most of the stems! And then everyone is happy and show their fingers and tongues brown-black.



It should be noted that the participants are forbidden to bring their own nettles or have any spices and condiments that can reduce the burning effect. But you can drink nettle beer and other beverages, this gives you the ability to cope with its flavor.
The flavor of nettle is similar to spinach, fern or cucumber. But in order to avoid burns from the nettle and reduce the painful sensations when used, everyone has their secrets. They cleanse nettle branches and fold the leaves with spines on the inside, as the reverse side of the sheet do not sting.



The history of these events is quite interesting. Once two farmers were arguing who have nettles in the garden above. One of them said, that will eat every stalk of nettle, which is longer than its own sample. Fun so interested in others that began to argue for a whole district and then County. So the usual argument was the beginning of an interesting contest for eating nettles, which appeared in 1998.





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