September 29, 2003

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  Pudding throwing competition on in UK

  Sunday, 28 September , 2003, 17:55

  London:

  
  

  Competitors have to hurl their black puddings -- a sausage-like delicacy of cooked pigs' blood, fat and rusk set in a length of intestine -- at a wooden platform 20 feet (six metres) up on the pub's wall.
  

  They have three throws in which to dislodge Yorkshire puddings, a baked concoction of milk, eggs and flour, from the platform.

  
  

  One theory says that the black pudding throwing originates from an incident when both armies ran out of ammunition and threw food at each other.

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