there's no way my stomach's big enough to eat all these every year there are some pretty
peculiar food celebrations going on some a little odder than the rest so here are the 10 craziest
food festivals from around the world pack your bags world peace shooting championship is my first
time very nervous but it is my first time everyone has a hidden talent maybe you can touch your nose
with your tongue or are able to lick your elbow but if your talent happens to have anything to
do with peashooting you might want to listen up held in witchum england every year since 1971
the world peashooting championship is the perfect event to showcase your abilities and skyrocket to
peace shooting fame on the second saturday of july participants can purchase a bag of dried
maple peas for a reasonable fee and enter this exciting sporting challenge in order to avoid
cheating by using pre-smoothed vegetables people are not allowed to bring their own personal piece
the rest however is up to you that'll be the thing that will be the winning of losing this
year you can bring your own pea shooter and some competitors spend a great deal of time modifying
and testing their devices you're even allowed to use laser guidance for extra shooting accuracy the
competition works like this using your mouse you shoot the piece through the pea shooter at a one
foot diameter target with three concentric rings from a distance of 12 feet so if spitballs were
your thing in high school then this crazy festival might just be right up your alley cooper's hill
cheese rolling so once you get going your mind is completely blank are you looking for a way
to get back into shape if so this ultra serious competition just might be the motivation you need
every year during the month of may there's a very interesting and cutthroat event held on
cooper's hill in brockworth near gloucester in england a cheese rolling competition not
only will it put your stamina to the test but it will always pit you against the ultimate opponent
a wheel of cheese indeed a nine pound wheel of double gloucester cheese is rolled down the hill
and contestants need to chase after it and be the first ones to get their hands on the fleeing wheel
okay you might not think that running after a wheel of cheese is an extreme sport but if you
take into consideration the near vertical slope of the hill you might just reconsider it must be
pretty good plus the wheel can reach speeds up to 70 miles per hour which is much faster than
any human can run even usain bolt since catching the cheese is nearly impossible the winner is
whoever gets to the bottom of the hill first and what do they win for their bravery the enormous
wheel of cheese of course while no one has ever actually died from this cheese rolling festival
there have been a lot of injuries back in 2010 it was officially banned due to safety concerns
but people still kept the tradition going broken bones cuts and bruises are not enough
to discourage people from defending their honor and their love of cheese giant omelet celebration
one of the best ways to start your day is with a steaming plate of eggs giving you all of the
nutrients and vitamins you need but what would you say if you go down a 15 000 egg omelet instead it
might sound like king kong's breakfast but if you visit bessie france on easter you'll
see exactly what we're talking about the giant omelet celebration has been an annual tradition
ever since 1973 and its origin dates back to the french revolution legend has it that when french
general napoleon bonaparte visited the area he liked his eggs so much he ordered that every egg
in the town be broken and put into a giant omelet for him and his troops and bessiere obliged the
brotherhood of the giant omelet cracks 15 000 eggs every time stirring the mixture with giant
wooden spoons resembling oars in the massive pan over an open fire in the middle of the town square
day festival gets a piece of the giant omelet which also includes
dancing music and even parades so if you're craving some tasty eggs
you know where and when to take your next trip la tomatina is that a square tomato
possibly one of the biggest food fights in the world and definitely the biggest tomato fight la
tomatina has been taking place in buenos spain ever since the 1940s on the last wednesday each
august during this festival you can let loose and throw over ripe tomatoes at random strangers
practically playing a giant game of dodgeball more than 100 metric tons of tomatoes are available
for throwing meaning you can toss a way more than just one or two bright red fruits
la tomatina began as a food fight between neighbors in the 1940s and has now become a yearly
tradition la tomatina used to be exclusively for the locals but over the years it has grown and the
residents are now joined by thousands of tourists now with an entrance fee since 2013 official
ticketing has been in place to limit the number of participants to just 20 000 people compared
to the 50 000 from previous years so if painting the town red with tomatoes sounds like something
you would be good at this is the perfect festival for you just remember to wear old clothes and have
something to wipe the tomato juice from your eyes with battle of the oranges the battle rage is on
it turns out that spaniards aren't the only ones who like to throw food around
the battle of the oranges takes place each year in evreya italy and as the name suggests allows
people to fling a bunch of oranges at the enemy this tradition goes back to the middle ages and
even though the origins are historically unclear most people have heard the same tale it was the
miller's daughter violetta who cut off the duke's head for trying to claim his right
to sleep with young brides on their wedding night which led to an uprising to add some
authenticity to the ritual a woman in the crowd is chosen every year to play the part of violetta
for three days the town's people of evreya will divide up into nine different teams dress in their
battle attire make their way over the designated war areas across the city and desperately try to
kill the other teams by pounding each other with over eight hundred thousand pounds of oranges
after the battle is over everything is collected off the streets and taken to a recycling center
now obviously throwing hard oranges left and right isn't the safest thing to do and there have been
some injuries but nothing ever quite serious enough to put a stop to this zesty tradition
roadkill festival just serve it the way we found it this next festival is definitely one of the
craziest so far and it all happens in the town of marlington west virginia we can all agree that one
of the most unappetizing things in life is the site of mangled wildlife on the side of the road
correction we can almost all agree that is as the roadkill festival is a real thing
apparently people from marlington like their meat so fresh they go and pick it up on the side of the
road while sure by the time they're done cooking it you probably won't see the tire marks but you
will get an idea of what roadside animal tragedies taste like from squirrel gravy on biscuits to
stewed black bear mixed with chilean beans and teriyaki marinated iguana you can find it all
at the roadkill festival you don't get bear every day i mean it's just it's just fun if this sounds
a little too much for your sensitive stomach to take don't worry the animals used for cooking
don't necessarily have to be actual roadkill they simply need to be animals you would usually find
in these accidents this offbeat event takes place every september and has been extensively covered
by the discovery channel the travel channel and even the food network aside from the food there's
also live music and square dancing a farmer's market horseshoe pitching and a beauty pageant
where you could be named the next miss roadkill knight of the radishes is that a radish over here
pumpkin carving is a very popular halloween tradition in mexico however the vegetable
carving happens at christmas time and no it's not festive pumpkins the night of the radishes or
noche de robanos takes place every december in mexico and the tradition stretches back more than
a century in 1897 the then mayor turned the radish carving tradition into an official celebration and
declared december 23rd the official night of the radishes local artisans and amateurs alike
gather in the town plaza to carve elaborate scenes from giant radishes to attract potential shoppers
to the district there's a lot of people here they carve intricate shapes on the vegetables ruby skin
turning the radishes into tiny humans and houses which are often bought as christmas centerpieces
the most popular motifs include the nativity scene mayan imagery local wildlife like snakes
and gators as well as mission style architecture since radishes are perishable and they start to
brown after a few hours creators only have a limited window to complete their masterpiece
the best radish carver will win a grand prize of 12 000 pesos and a good amount of publicity
but the night of the radishes doesn't just end with the impressive carving local churches also
parade handcrafted non-radish-themed floats and on christmas day it's time for fireworks
and a traditional holiday dinner chinchilla melon festival don't eat the seeds or one's
going to grow in your belly at first the name of this festival might be a little confusing
are you going to find a rodent in your food rest assured you won't the chinchilla melon
festival is held in chinchilla australia and features a guest of honor you guessed it melons
since chinchilla is considered the melon capital of the world it was only fitting to have this
celebration every february four days are dedicated to the festival in which you can participate in
a bunch of interactive melon related activities there's the melon chariot race the melon iron man
melon bungee melon skein melon tossing they got helmets on their heads but i gotta want them alone
instead and of course plenty of tasty dishes made with melon but the culinary fun doesn't end there
there's also a celebrity melon eating contest which is always a big hit and a crowd favorite
you can also assist or even participate in the melon weigh-in where farmers compete to see who
can grow the biggest melon the free melon feast beach activities concerts and street parades or
other very popular stops at the festival the chinchilla melon festival started in 1994 to
lift the spirits of a drought-stricken community and was only supposed to be a one-time thing but
it was such a hit it came back again and again the whole thing is run entirely by volunteers from the
community and showcases chinchilla for the entire world to see bug fest our troop pier guarantees a
performance like no other yep this one is exactly what it sounds like a festival full of bugs but
not just any bugs the edible kind basically a lot of people's worst nightmare just a heads
up this particular celebration is not for the faint of heart or the scaredy cats out there it
takes guts to even walk through the doors at this festival every september the north carolina museum
of natural sciences hosts an annual bug fest with around 25 000 visitors there are over 100 exhibits
crafts games and activities in which you can learn all about entomology the main event however is
when you get to actually eat some bugs this part takes place at cafe insecta a pop-up restaurant
where local chefs prepare a variety of culinary treats for festival goers to sample all featuring
some tasty insects that is delicious doesn't this sound like the perfect place to take your date
picture this lovingly gazing into each other's eyes while romantically munching on a piece of
quivering wax worm quiche or a cheesy quesadilla filled with super worms and they say romance is
dead of course no one is forced to try any of the insect-filled dishes but it's kind of like
the whole point of the festival the chefs spend a lot of time preparing only the best bug dishes
and it would only be fair to give them a try if you feel up to the task and you've got the stomach
for it get your ticket now and hop in the car for a little road trip gilroy garlic festival and he
had this wonderful system for doing the garlic let's just say it garlic makes everything better
this is why gilroy a northern city of california celebrates the goodness that is garlic every year
during the garlic festival for over 40 years late summer marks the beginning of the festivities all
revolving around the potent yet tasty garlic clove during the three-day event there are a
ton of activities to take part in like festival kiosks golf tournaments farm-to-table dinners
and the best for last a trip down gourmet alley unbelievable this magical place features an
outdoor kitchen with a gigantic fire where the pros cook up delicious garlicky dishes
there are classics like steak fries and garlic bread to some more adventurous recipes such as
garlic lollipops and even garlic ice cream sure it might sound weird at first but don't knock it
till you've tried it according to the website the gilroy garlic festival association was established
to benefit local charities and non-profit groups by promoting the gilroy community with
the celebration of garlic with gilroy considered the garlic capital of the world it makes sense
that they would want to celebrate it california produces over 90 percent of commercial garlic
grown in the u.s and gilroy is home to the top grower christopher ranch which also is
the largest grower in the nation producing over 50 percent of our garlic crops check
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