Photo by Charlotte Squire
A fun local tradition in New Zealand:
The annual Collingwood Raft Race was taking place, and a large crowd gathered on the bridge to throw a fuming concoction of rotten whey and old squid at the competitors as they floated beneath the bridge towards the “finish line” at the Collingwood Motor Camp.Also tossed onto the rafters: “buckets of liquid pig manure and buckets of rotten milk.” This seems to have been a departure from “the traditional bombardment of old eggs and flour bombs.”
Good times.
2 comments:
Rotten whey, old squid, liquid pig manure and rotten milk . . . ? I think I'm glad I sat this particular tradition out.
Nathan Branch:
It doesn't even sound like fun to be tossing the squids--the fans on the bridge wear heavy duty rubber gloves.
Meanwhile, there's this. What is it with New Zealand?
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