Chopsticks Competition

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

408

Date Released

22 Oct 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Broads Holiday
2. 2Chopsticks Competition
3. 3Knife-Throwing
4. 4Away from It All

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

NoS Summary - Holidaymakers at a Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Clacton compete to eat Chinese food as quickly as possible using chopsticks.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: Don’t use a fork - use chopsticks. It’s easy. Or so they told holidaymakers at Clacton who entered a Chinese eating competition because they’d never tasted Chinese food before. They’re still waiting to taste it. Well, have you ever handled fried rice the hard way?

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Competitions

Locations

England; Essex; Clacton-on-Sea

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Length of story (in feet)

78

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