CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Alex Quade covers a contest featuring a very odd example of British cuisine.</s>ALEX QUADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Stinging nettles, plants most people usually take great pains to avoid. But not these people. They savor them.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We can now start one hour of madness.</s>QUADE: Welcome to the world nettle eating competition, Marshwood Village, U.K. The goal of these gastronomic gladiators, eat as many feet of nettles as possible in one hour. And there are techniques. Pinching the leaves into a little ball or just shoving a big wad into your mouth. Just be careful of that itch. And don't think a little rain would interfere with this serious competition.</s>SIMON SLEIGH, NETTLE EATING CHAMPION: Contest was good this year. The nettles definitely</s>QUADE: Getting them down is no problem with beer chasers. This year's winner, Simon Sleigh, chomped through 76 feet of nettles.</s>SLEIGH: Best of fruit, but again, excellent news.</s>QUADE: And in case he didn't get enough, there's always more, let's say for dessert. Alex Quade, CNN.
Nettle-Eating Competition Takes Place in Britain