🥬 There's An Annual LETTUCE-EATING Contest!

How fast can you eat a lettuce?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation. The Bondi Icebergs reopened on the
weekend they have their traditional winter swim. They fixed the pool. Well,
that was the thing, wasn't it. It was smashed. Remember that
at the start of April there was an incredible swell
that brought about the waves that just smashed the glass
and all the windows of the icebergs. So they've had

(00:23):
to close the pool. But they have their annual ice
jumping tradition. This is where members of the icebergs whole
blocks of ice and jump into the water. My friend
Anita is a member of the iceberg.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
You do double a chattery with her.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, they're quite strict rules with the icebergs that you
have to swim every week for a number for a
number of seasons, and if you don't, I think you
have to apply in writing. It's very old fashioned and
it's only after you've swum for a number of years.
I think that you become a member where you can
jump in and take part when if you feel like it,
but don't have to go every week.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, they don't want diletons.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
They don't want diletons because it can.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Be tool city around there and someone will argue that
go and you never see them again. You're going to
have the stones and show up every week.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
And to see your shrunken stones through the winter. So
from Bondai icebergs to icebergs of a different kind. There's
The University of Minnesota has such a thing as a
Lettuce Club and every year they have an annual competition
could you eat.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
An entire head of lettuce in under three minutes? This
is the University of Minnesota Lettice Club, a group that
meets once a year to see who can eat a
one pound head of iceberg lettice the fastest whe or
without dressing. The all time record two minutes and thirty
five seconds. The winner is crowned Head Lettuce and has
to organize next year's meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
So they all have different techniques. They have to eat
a one pound lettuce, which is about half a ki low,
and it has to be an iceberg.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
What's your strategy for you as smaller bites but faster
to me, so like a rabbit basically just nibble.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Right, yeah, and they all take it, as you can imagine,
very seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Each lettice is formally weighed before the competition begins. Then
participates must place the right hand on their lettuce and
receave the pledge. Then they start chowing down to show
you finish the entire hand. You have to stand up,
raise the dam and prove your mouth is empty.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
To wein doks dorks, absolute dorks, and you should see
the pictures of it. There's a guy with a big
lettuce on his head and he puts a lettuce crown
on the person who wins. You know, it's a lot
of ick involved. There's a dating scenario uni there that
would not be a group where I would think, for
I joined the claret club at least there was a

(02:33):
bit more grunt in that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, and then you chucked over the curtain.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, I mean this the letters competition. It does sound
like a ridiculo concept, doesn't it. But you know where
they're doing it just because.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I do.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
You like to say.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's such a disappointment.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
You have to learn to love a pun