Incredible Food Festivals Around The World To Add To Your Bucket List
By CHERYL KOCHENDERFER
Every spring in Gloucester, England, a 7-pound Double Gloucester cheese wheel is released from the top of Cooper's Hill, rolling downward at speeds up to 70 mph.
A second later, brave competitors race after the cheese — often tumbling head-over-heels to reach the bottom first. The winner of this 200-yard race wins the cheese wheel.
We recommend trying Rocky Mountain Oysters, aka bull testicles, which taste a bit like calamari. If you're feeling really hungry, enter a Testicle Festival eating competition.
At a festival in Lopburi, Thailand, monkeys are the guest of honor and are treated to a bountiful buffet, as they are thought to bring prosperity to the town.
Every Shrove Tuesday, the women of Olney, England, race with frying pans of pancakes from a starting line to the foot of a church, tossing it at the beginning and end.
In 1945, villagers in Buñol, Spain, began hurling nearby produce at one another in a quarrel, leading to the origin of La Tomatina, the world's largest food fight.