On the world championship eating nettles won — Philip Thorne Bashny.Net

At the world championship eating nettles with the official name "World Nettle Eating Championships", won the Philip Thorne.

Philip Thorne (Phillip Thorne), by profession a chef, and that he had to eat 80 feet of stinging nettles to win the world championship eating nettles. Chef broke the previous record of 76 pounds, set by Simon F (Simon Slee ) 13 years ago.



Simon, incidentally, was in the audience and congratulated Phil on his success. He said, "I'm glad to see my record broken".

The competitors had to eat as many two-feet-wide stems of nettles.

This time the world "nettle" the championship was held in "The Bottle Inn", in Dorset, on Saturday.

At this time, adventurers from more than 40 countries of the West, who were hoping to take the title of "best consumer nettles," but, in the end, lucky barakauskiene newcomer Philip Thorne (as you know, beginners luck), and scratched (or rather ate) yourself a prize.





A large crowd in the "Bottle Inn", followed by setting a new record at the world championship eating nettles, which is held in the pub every summer.

The chef (he works in "Waitrose" Sidmouth), Phillip Thorne, who lives in Colyton, in Devon, was awarded the Cup "Otter Brewery". He became the first winner of this kind of championship.

Participant, who took second place was Pete Wellman (Pete Wellman), who has won for the third time in a row. He even broke his own record last year by two feet, using this time 62 feet, but it surpassed Phil. Pete very generously took the podium to congratulate Steve with his success.





Cup for leading lady Claire brown (Claire Brown), a 23-year-old teacher from chard in Somerset. She managed to eat a 46-foot nettles in the allotted time, the amount of which was more than twice exceeded compared to last year.

A local farmer, Dave Hutchings (Hutchings Dave) took on the task of cutting thousands of stems of nettles, which were absorbed by rivals at the event on Saturday, June 7.

The event coincided with a three-day festival of beer and cider, held in "The Bottle''s landlords," Nigel and Chrissie Blake.



Source: eco-portal.kz