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If ever something were worth televising, it’s the 9th annual World Nettle Eating Championship, held at the Bottle Inn in Marshwood, England. Competitors must eat as many nettles as they can; progress is measured by the combined length of the discarded bare stems. Nettles, which are wild plants with serrated-edged leaves that sting, strike the casual newsreader as strange/painful things on which to focus an eating contest. The whole thing started with an argument in the Bottle Inn in which a farmer boasted that he would eat any nettles that were bigger than the ones on his property.
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