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    Dorset knob-eating contest held online amid lockdown

    Dorset's annual knob-eating competition is to be held online for the first time.

    The event - in which contestants vie to gobble more of the county's traditional biscuits than their rivals - usually draws huge crowds.
    But this year 100 competitive eaters will live-stream their attempts to swallow the savoury spheres.
    Its sister event, the Dorset knob-throwing festival, has been postponed until 2021.
    Entrants in that competition would normally gather in a field to toss the thrice-baked treats as far as possible.
    'Quite dry'

    Each hopeful in the knob-eating championship has been sent a packet of regulation Moores Biscuits for their heats.
    Contestants have a minute to finish off as many knobs as they can manage.
    But festival chairman Ian Gregory warned the bun-shaped confections were "quite dry" and "you can't eat very many of them" in such a short time.
    "The world record stands at 13 or 14 - that was a momentous performance in 2015," he said.
    "But since then no-one has done more than seven," Mr Gregory said.
    Organisers said entries had come in from all corners of the UK, including Castle Donington, Ellesmere Port and Cockermouth.
    "Obviously lots from Dorset" had also signed up, said Mr Gregory.
    Proceeds from this year's event, which begins at 10:00 BST, will be donated to local charity, Weldmar Hospicecare.
    The knob-throwing event started in 2008 and now incorporates a food festival, knob darts and games including knob and spoon racing and pinning the knob on the Cerne Abbas giant.
    It is expected to return to Cattistock Fete, in west Dorset, on Sunday 2 May next year.


    Dorset knob explainer


    • The biscuits have been made by Moores of Morecombelake for more than 150 years
    • Originally, they were made from leftover bread dough with added butter and sugar, hand-rolled and left to dry in the dying heat of the oven
    • It is thought their name comes from the hand-sewn Dorset knob buttons that were also made locally
    • They can be eaten with Blue Vinny cheese, dipped in tea or cider, or taken with honey and cream - known locally as thunder and lightning

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    Better to think inside the pub, than outside the box?
    I apologize if any offence was caused. unless it was intended.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Cockermouth
    a ring in ?

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    Dorset borders Somerset to the south and they are just weird down that way. I'm often glad that I come from the cosmopolitan northern part of the West Country!

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    Indeed, in the wetlands centred within the purlieus around Weston Zoyland they eat their babies in winter if food stocks are depleted and sexual congress is strictly 'en famille' resulting in the unique characteristic of an extra toe on each foot which facilitates their passage among the squishy boglands of their 'hood.

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    ^ Coincidentally enough I work with a guy from Westonzoyland... and his family have lived in that neck of the woods for several generations. His route into the offshore hydrographic survey industry was by starting work at the Admiralty Hydrographic offices in Taunton.

    If ever I get back to work I'll ask to see his feet.

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    Does he have that beetle brow and those characteristic gapped teeth too?

    I'm getting quite wistful thinking of my time atop the Burrowbridge Mump gazing upon the Tor rising above the autumnal mists enveloping Avalon and its secrets.

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    No gapped teeth that I can remember... but he is called Vivian which I've always thought a bit odd for a bloke.

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    I like the orange vests... "Knob Crew"!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    they are just weird down that way
    If only there was a Knob Polishing Competition

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    If only there was a Knob Polishing Competition
    Closeted candidates at the waiting.

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    Someone didn't take the bate


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    Oh sorry... were you referring to me?

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    I once knew a Dorset knob eater.

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