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In the interest of promoting regional stereotypes, Wigan is hosting the World Pie Eating Championship in December.

The article is actually mostly about deciding which company gets to make the pies for the contest, and has such fantastic quotes that I’m pretty sure the whole thing has to be some kind of piss-take:

“These pies have to be top quality,” says Tony. “we don’t want the cream cracker factor resulted in a dry mouth and therefore what we would term a ’swallow-stall’, nor do we want a filling that is over-absorbent and therefore provokes spongification in competitors’ bellies thereby delivering premature digestive over-capacity.

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“A pie that is too crumbly will produce a contest that could result in facial spillage and thereby short-weight consumption - and loss of credibility in the eyes of the world’s gastronomes.

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“We are confident a pie-maker from Wigan will provide and deliver pies to the appropriate standards and specifications, however in the interests of promoting regional good will we may possibly consider pies from outside of Wigan.”

Entries are invited from all over the world, although early indications are that the most distantly-based competitor will be from Ashton-in-Makerfield.

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