Up and down the country a small but dedicated bunch of festival-goers are preparing for the biggest date in the summer calendar.
As headliners, the Wurzels can’t really compete with Kanye. But, fortunately, live music isn’t Upton Cheney’s primary draw. The weather doesn’t even matter because a heatwave is guaranteed: this weekend marks the final of the UK Chilli Cook-Off, a hotly contested title, both literally and metaphorically.
But the Upton Cheney Chilli Festival, which takes place near Bristol, isn’t all about cooking. It’s just one event in a summer calendar that sees tens of thousands turn out to celebrate the chilli in all its forms. Stereotype has it that Brits like their food bland, but it seems the nation has gone chilli mad. Chilli shops, saucemakers and farms of varying scales have sprung up all over the place in the past decade, from Devon to Scotland, with some farms making profits of more than £250,000 a year and exporting to the likes of Mexico and Pakistan in deals the Department of the Environment announced to be worth £1.3m to the British economy. According to figures from Euromonitor International, the UK hot sauce market is now worth more than £17m. And the festivals are multiplying – there are at least 10 this month, from Bath to Scotland, culminating with London’s Festival Of Heat on the 27 September. Even if they’re not cooking, chilli heads like to compete, usually by munching on raw peppers of escalating firepower or ingesting superhot sauces (the last one to reach for the milk wins). At one festival I watched a contestant spoon hot sauce from a jar as if it was yoghurt. Most of the people who turn out will be browsing stalls for new and exciting hot sauces, chilli-infused oils and other chilli-based products to take home.
Fuck me pink!! Comparing the Wurzels to Kayne is like comparing the Mona Lisa to Andy Warhols "tins of beans".
The Wurzels are artists, Kayne is pop pap at its worse.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
They even have a tribute band - The Mangled Wurzles
Edited to correct the name
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
What silly costumes? That's the way they dress down in Zummerzet and Cornhole
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
