Food Festivals Around The World

In my previous post, I talked about Unusual Wedding customs around the world. Today, i am going to talk about Food festivals around the world. Not the normal food festivals that we will be seeing locally, but Top Weird Food Festivals around the World

Generally, food is an important part of any celebration in all nations of the world, regardless of any culture or religion. Food is well known to unite and strengthen community bonds. It is used to celebrate different occasions in different cultures. There are numerous festivals around the globe, which are related to food. But some of them are highly distinguished from the rest of the festival. Their odd way of celebration makes these festivals famous. Each and every year, people around the world enjoy such festivals by disgusting use of food. To celebrate these festivals, people get dressed in strange and funny clothes and start food fights.

Probably, such festivals were not really a waste of food in the past. These festivals had been celebrated over the years, when the areas which were held in for this purpose might produce huge amount of a certain food like tomatoes, oranges etc. There would be an excess of food in the past which would go off or damaged and these festivals would be the way by which the spoiled food was thrown around.

In these festivals, food gets spilled, thrown away in a childish way, and wasted just for the enjoyment purpose only. It is not like any offense, but do you agree with that thing in which people have food ‘on’ them but not ‘in’ them, really awesome? There is thousands of starving kids in America alone, and you can easily figure out the number for the whole world. Unfortunately, it is mostly America which wastes food on a world wide scale. These food-focused festivals are just waste of foods in weirdest, wackiest way and nothing else.

La Tomatina

La Tomatina is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol. In this festival, participants throw tomatoes at each other. This festival has a rule that people can start throwing the tomatoes only after a horn sounded and they should end when it sounded a second time. Participants are particularly advised to use goggles and gloves in this festival. To reduce the risk of injury, they persist on to use crushed tomatoes only. This festival held first time by the discontent people of the Buñol against the council members of the town in form of attack.

Roadkill Cook-off

Incredible but true that the food at this festival, involve dishes which are prepared with the kinds of animals that meet their end in traffic accidents. In West Virginia of U.S.A., Marlington celebrates roadkill fare in every September. However, nobody check in actual manner, it is part of the official rules that no one uses real road kill here, but they can cook only that one which must found dead on the side of the road like possum, beaver, raccoon, snake, deer, etc. People need to find a fresh but already killed animal on the side of the road and they can cook it in their own way. Participant need to bring all of their own equipment to cook. Winner can go away $300 in roadkill festival.

BugFest

In the Bugfest, you are dared to snack on a bug. If you can eat a basic bug you may get a discount or you may win free entry to the museum. You need to serve dishes featuring creepy crawlers or insects as a major ingredient. This time they plan to put the theme of aquatic bugs. Bugfest held by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh; participants dare themselves to eat insect dishes prepared by local chefs also cheer on bugs at the Roach Race 5000. Bugfest detest cruelty, and it would like to create your awareness to the circus beast ban debate.

Chinchilla Melon Festival

Melon Festival is held once in every two years in Chinchilla which is the Melon Capital of the Australia. Unfortunately, this festival includes and wastes 25 percent of the nation’s watermelon crop. Sports like melon tossing, seed spitting, and skiing in which feet embedded in the fruit are part of melon festival. Chinchilla local, John Allwood smashed through about 40 watermelons using only his "melon" just in a minute in 2009.