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Spitting at tourists
1 Jun 2006
The people of the French town of Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot meet up each July to spit.
The Prune Pit Spitters Festival on 29 July tests the ability of locals to spit prune stones and hundreds of people take part each year with categories for children as well as adults.
Contestants line up in the town square and try to spit stones the furthest to win the honour of being the year's best spitter.
The point of the festival is to celebrate the locally grown prunes and the spitting is joined by music, plenty of food, not solely prune-based but featuring prune patisserie, and prunes served in eau de vie.
Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot lies in the south west of France in the region of Aquitaine.
Aquitaine's range of food and drink is far more diverse than just prunes, with the vineyards of Bordeaux and Bergerac within its borders and foie gras and duck among the local culinary specialities, along with poule au pot - which was so good that King Henri IV commanded that his family eat it weekly.
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The Prune Pit Spitters Festival on 29 July tests the ability of locals to spit prune stones and hundreds of people take part each year with categories for children as well as adults.
Contestants line up in the town square and try to spit stones the furthest to win the honour of being the year's best spitter.
The point of the festival is to celebrate the locally grown prunes and the spitting is joined by music, plenty of food, not solely prune-based but featuring prune patisserie, and prunes served in eau de vie.
Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot lies in the south west of France in the region of Aquitaine.
Aquitaine's range of food and drink is far more diverse than just prunes, with the vineyards of Bordeaux and Bergerac within its borders and foie gras and duck among the local culinary specialities, along with poule au pot - which was so good that King Henri IV commanded that his family eat it weekly.
© Adfero Ltd
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