May Fair Day 2004

The Bush Tucker Challenge

This year we did our own version of the "Bush Tucker Challenge". There were 13 items on the menu;

• Alaskan; deep-fried Slugs in butter sauce
• French; Horse steaks in onion sauce
• Japanese; Haimisha pickled cucumbers
• Ethiopian; Mealworms deep-fried in filo pastry
• Greek; Anchovies in garlic
• Portuguese; Mussels cooked in lime & coriander sauce
• Indonesian; Pot bellied pig’s hearts in garlic
• Maltese; Octopus cooked in olive oil
• Spanish; Bulls testicles spicy sausage
• Thai; Peppers stuffed with deadly blowfish
• Turkish; sheep’s eyes with garlic sauce
• Aboriginal; Lizards tails spicy meatballs coated with crispy locust’s and deep-fried in oil
• Italian; Peppers roasted in manure fuelled ovens

All the food has been expertly prepared, and they are delicacies in the country of there origin. All the dishes have been fully cooked and no live creatures were eaten.

The food was brought to the tables where the competitors waited for the starting whistle, when they can start eating as quickly as possible. When they finished each dish they had to put their hand up, upon which a steward checked whether they had swallowed all the food or not.

The competitors were eliminated in ones or twos depending on the dish, or numbers in the contest, the last one in each round was eliminated, plus anyone not eating the food was eliminated from the contest.

Here are a few pictures of the contest.

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