THE recreation of knob consuming has been faraway from an occasion resulting from well being and security fears.
The Dorset Knob Pageant will happen in July after a spot of 5 years.
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The quirky occasion is a celebration of the normal Dorset knob biscuit — a dry and difficult delicacy constituted of bread dough.
The pageant’s spotlight is the knob-throwing contest to see who can hurl the pyramid-shaped biscuit the furthest.
Nonetheless, the normal knob consuming contest has been axed.
Ian Gregory, of the organising committee, mentioned: “We’re not doing knob consuming this yr, we don’t need folks choking on a knob. However there can be loads of different knob video games. It’s going to actually be loads of good enjoyable.”
These different knob video games embody splat-the-knob, putt-the-knob, guess the burden of the massive knob, knob darts and knob portray can be going forward.
There may even be a knob-and-spoon race and pin-the-knob on the Cerne Abbas Big — a scaled-down define of the historic chalk determine famed for its big manhood.
The one-day pageant takes place on July 14 at Chilfrome, close to Cattistock in Dorset.
It was first held in 2008 and was final staged in 2019 when 8,000 folks descended on Kingston Maurward School close to Dorchester.
The 2020 and 2021 occasions have been scrapped resulting from Covid.
And in 2022 it was shelved because it grew to become too massive to be run by the small voluntary village committee.
Organisers have now teamed up with the Cattistock Countryside Present and the Dorset Knob Pageant can be a part of that.
The present document throw of a Dorset knob is 104ft, set by James Vincent-Smith in 2019.
