Sunday 26 September 2010

An Edible Prize

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Personally, I can’t stand karaoke, that noisy pastime that ruins the peace of many bars so that you can’t hear yourself speak let alone hear what your companion might want to say. But I accept that there are millions of aficionados of the singing competition that first surfaced in Japan and spread to the rest of the world.

Russian organisers in Moscow have just held a three-day international karaoke competition in which amateur singers from sixteen countries took part. It was won by a gentleman from New Mexico who performed his version of Usher's Got Us Fallin' In Love.

You’d think that the prize for such a competition would be something quite amazing. And so it was. The prize was one million little Siberian dumplings or ‘pelmeni’. Wow!

I hope this fellow has a decent-sized deep-freeze or a lot of friends. Organisers have said that if the winner eats one hundred dumplings a day, they will last for 27 years!
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