The Strangest Food Holidays In The World

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Every year, the inhabitants of the Italian city of Ivrea spend three days with oranges. According to legend, the medieval ruler of Ivrea was so tight-lipped that he gave the peasants a pea once every six months.

That is why there was a tradition of shooting with peas. After a few years, peas were replaced by oranges, which began to be grown in abundance in the southern part of the country.

Every spring in England there is a holiday, during which a large pie of special cheese is dropped down a steep hill, and dozens of Britons run after it.

The race ends with fractures, bruises and stretched tendons. The winner wins the pie. In 1997, the holiday caused many injuries and would be canceled, but thrill seekers insisted it continue.

Every year in Thailand, the holiday of Hanuman, the god of monkeys, is celebrated. Pyramids of fruit are made in his honor, around which more than two thousand monkeys gather.

A radish festival is held in Mexico. In the sixteenth century, when Spanish researchers brought radishes to Mexico, no one wanted to buy them.

Farmers were wondering what to do with them and began to cut out different shapes from the radishes, which aroused the interest of buyers. Every year a festival is held where everyone can show a sculpture of radishes.

The Greek city of Galaxidi is sprinkled with sacks of flour and the whole city, together with the people in it, is covered with a huge layer of flour. Because the flour is colored, the buildings suffer from it.

The New Zealand Shepherd Festival brings together shepherds who compete on an equal footing with their dogs in an obstacle course. During the run, they have to squeeze a certain type of food into their teeth, usually raw meat.