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World Pie Eating Championship
The World Pie Eating Championship is an annual contest usually held at Harry's Bar on Wallgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The competition has been held since 1992.
The competition was first held in 1992.
In 2006, the competition was changed to meet government healthy eating guidelines, from the number of pies consumed in a given time, to the fastest time to consume a single pie. A vegetarian version was also added with the organiser citing "relentless pressure" from The Vegetarian Society, but this practice was discontinued from 2007.
In the 2006 contest, the meat and potato pies were all 12 cm (5 in) in diameter with a depth of 3.5 cm (1.5 in). In the separate vegetarian contest, the pies were 10 cm (4 in) by 3 cm (1.2 in). In December 2007, in the competition, entries included a competitor's dog, Charlie, who had eaten twenty pies and damaged a further ten the night before the competition, nearly jeopardising the event.
Channel 5 filmed the 2024 event for their TV show 22 Kids and Counting, as the show's star Noel Radford supplied the pies for the competition. The championship's organiser and "piemaster", Tony Callaghan, dropped and partly broke the trophy. Hits Radio interviewed Callaghan afterwards. Several newspapers were also present.
In 2005, pies were imported from nearby Farnworth, Bolton, and local Wigan pies were sidelined as it was believed they were substandard, leading to a four-man strong protest. In December 2009, a similar situation arose, with pies being sourced from Adlington.
In December 2014, pies of the wrong size were delivered to the event, while the intended pies were sent to a nearby divorce party. The contestants competed with halved pies, but the results were nullified. The head of the World Pie Eating Championship went to court on the television show Judge Rinder, presenting a case against the pie maker of the wrongly sized pies, but was awarded nothing.
Wiganers are proud to be called pie eaters, but the nickname is not thought to be because of their appetite for the delicacy. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work, before their counterparts in surrounding towns and were forced to eat "humble pie".
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World Pie Eating Championship
The World Pie Eating Championship is an annual contest usually held at Harry's Bar on Wallgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The competition has been held since 1992.
The competition was first held in 1992.
In 2006, the competition was changed to meet government healthy eating guidelines, from the number of pies consumed in a given time, to the fastest time to consume a single pie. A vegetarian version was also added with the organiser citing "relentless pressure" from The Vegetarian Society, but this practice was discontinued from 2007.
In the 2006 contest, the meat and potato pies were all 12 cm (5 in) in diameter with a depth of 3.5 cm (1.5 in). In the separate vegetarian contest, the pies were 10 cm (4 in) by 3 cm (1.2 in). In December 2007, in the competition, entries included a competitor's dog, Charlie, who had eaten twenty pies and damaged a further ten the night before the competition, nearly jeopardising the event.
Channel 5 filmed the 2024 event for their TV show 22 Kids and Counting, as the show's star Noel Radford supplied the pies for the competition. The championship's organiser and "piemaster", Tony Callaghan, dropped and partly broke the trophy. Hits Radio interviewed Callaghan afterwards. Several newspapers were also present.
In 2005, pies were imported from nearby Farnworth, Bolton, and local Wigan pies were sidelined as it was believed they were substandard, leading to a four-man strong protest. In December 2009, a similar situation arose, with pies being sourced from Adlington.
In December 2014, pies of the wrong size were delivered to the event, while the intended pies were sent to a nearby divorce party. The contestants competed with halved pies, but the results were nullified. The head of the World Pie Eating Championship went to court on the television show Judge Rinder, presenting a case against the pie maker of the wrongly sized pies, but was awarded nothing.
Wiganers are proud to be called pie eaters, but the nickname is not thought to be because of their appetite for the delicacy. The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work, before their counterparts in surrounding towns and were forced to eat "humble pie".
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