2009 World Black Pudding Throwing Championships

[Muzorewa]

Team Muz are planning to attend (and maybe even enter ) the 2009 World Black Pudding Throwing Championships. The date & location of this magnificent tournament is yet to be finalised with the FIB (Fédération internationale des boudins ) but it is likely to be at Ramsbottom on Sunday 13th September. The things they get up to in the hills

Depending on interest, I’ll see what camping might be available. Those planning to camp be warned, your bacon & egg breakfast on the Sunday MUST include black pudding. Inspections & disqualifications will be rigorously enforced

Anyone interested please let me know, maybe there’s a team entry and we can enter a Bongo-Pud team

[dreamwarrioruk]

our cooked breakfast on a sunday when camping out is always with blackpudding,love the stuff,toooo good to throw,rather just eat it,anyway do you cook it first when throwing it or is it still uncooked.where is ramsbottom anyway,ive heard of it but dont know where it is.not being thick or nothin

[Muzorewa]

Venue: Royal Oak Public House
Address: 39 Bridge Street BL0 9AD
Tel: +44 (0)1706 822786

"As part of the tournament, the "Golden Grid" is transported from Bury town centre by the ELR steam train and carried up to Bridge Street with much pomp and ceremony, to be laid in the road next to the wall on which the Yorkshire puddings are mounted. With one foot on the grid, competitors (young and old) attempt to knock a pile of Yorkshire puddings from a wooden platform 20ft up the pub wall with three throws of the pudding. The winner is simply the person to dislodge the most Yorkshire puddings.

"This historic tradition has been on the go for 150 years and attracts spectators and competitors from around the world. It's thought that the contest is a revival of old clashes between the people of Lancashire and those from Yorkshire, during which Lancastrians hurled black puddings at their counterparts from the white pudding county of Yorkshire.

"For anyone still in the dark, black pudding is a regional delicacy and a type of sausage consisting of congealed pigs' blood, fat and rusk, encased in a length of intestine. Yum!"

[Harry]

Sounds like just the sort of daft weekend I enjoy.

I'll be there if nowt else crops up.

Thanks for the 'heads up'

H

[dreamwarrioruk]

that was the wife posting earlier, i know where ramsbottom is

[Diane]

I could tell that was Jo before Mike. I think she just likes to make you look a bit fick sometimes
I dont like black pudding so I reckon all its good for is lobbing at Yorkshire folk and/or puddings. Sorry. I think I can say that cos I am married to a Yorkshire man.
We could be up for this one Muz.
Di

[wooden wheel]

Why is my birthday always associated with food , last year it was fish and chips at Compo's . This year I'll be celebrating with black pudding
Count us in

Lynn x

[mobilecat]

our cooked breakfast on a sunday when camping out is always with blackpudding,love the stuff,toooo good to throw,rather just eat it,anyway do you cook it first when throwing it or is it still uncooked.where is ramsbottom anyway,ive heard of it but dont know where it is.not being thick or nothin

It is near Bury, North of Manchester

[Bongoplod]

We fancy this as it sounds a giggle

Ive managed to put away 3 Bury Black Puds,(with mustard,easy after 6 pints, but not with bacon n egg though) so may even join the team

Brian

[mobilecat]

Should us veggies stay at home - even if we live in Bury where the best black puddings come from

[daveblueozzie]

Should us veggies stay at home - even if we live in Bury where the best black puddings come from

No you gotta go Cath, honorary member of the BONGO BLACK PUDD BRIGADE.
Sounds like fun count me in, i even like the white pudd.

[Bongoplod]

Should us veggies stay at home - even if we live in Bury where the best black puddings come from

In total agreement with that one.

Brian

[You've Been Bongod]

BBQ the black pudding it will make it as hard as a rock and heavier that way ( oh and it flies like a frisby as well )

[not so old]

This sounds like it could be a good laugh. Depends on dates I have two birthdays/partys in September and I'm off to Mablethorpe again that month. I will keep an eye out for dates. What campsite ? Oh! I forgot Jimmy doesn't like black pudding Will he be force fed ?

Anna

[jumper]

I have two birthdays/partys in September

Anna[/quote]

2 birthdays? are you the queen?

Ian