Discover the 4 most 'sweet' festivals in the world

Those are festivals you not only eat, but also "bath" in sweets too.

Cream cakes, grapes, watermelon . must be familiar foods that you eat every day. But have you ever imagined the feeling of being able to "struggle" in a "sea" of these sweet foods?

The following article will accompany you to check out some of the "sweetest" festivals in the world in which ice cream cakes, grapes, watermelons, . not only for "beating".

1. Festival "swimming" in watermelon in Australia (Chinchilla melon festival)

Every year in the middle of February every year, the Chinchilla town of Queensland (Australia) hosts a unique festival, and the festival's "main character" will be delicious new watermelons harvested right here. .

The succulent watermelons will be the main characters in this festival.

Chinchilla is considered the "watermelon capital" of kangaroo, when it supplies 25% of watermelon production to the whole country.

Perhaps that is why the amount of melon here is so much that it can be used to organize the festival without fear of affecting the "livelihood".

Activities in the watermelon festival are very diverse.

The first watermelon festival was held in 1994, with the aim of raising the spirit of the whole town after a severe drought in the early 1990s.

At the beginning of the festival, only about 2,500 people attended, half of the population in the town. But after 10 years the number of attendees has reached 10,000 people.

You will be literally "bathed" in watermelon if you come here.

Activities in the watermelon festival are very diverse. All participants can play games like melon, tug of war, eat a piece of melon in the fastest time without touching their hands, throwing melons through holes . All have turned this into a ceremony truly sweet festival of Australians.

2. "Bathe" festival in sweet candy in Spain (La Merengada)

In addition to the grape throwing festival in Valencia, people and tourists in Spain will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in another extremely sweet festival in Barcelona, ​​which is a candy throwing festival.

This candy wrap will break, helping visitors "bath" in scrumptious sweet candy.

The candy throwing festival, called La merengada de Vilanova , takes place in Vilanova i la Geltru, a small town located in the south of Barcelona. This festival usually lasts from mid-February to early March in the year.

And this is when the candy is broken.

The origin of the festival is also very interesting. In the past, the festival in the town of Vilanova i la Geltru was merely a flower flag and street bands performed.

But on a festival day 250 years ago, a street band decided to draw attention by applying honey, sweets to people . "crowded" running around the street.

Since then, people have added activities to self-apply candy to themselves (but still wearing clothes of course), and throw candy at people around.

Today, in addition to sweet candies, festival participants also use egg flour and sugar to throw each other.

Besides the participants throwing candy at each other, this festival also has the participation of many musicians and many parades participating in the performance, creating a vibrant atmosphere and colors in the town.

3. Ice cream battle in the UK (World Custard Pie Championship)

In a small village called Coxheath in England, there is a cake-throwing contest - or rather, egg cakes - very unique and fun. The competition took place for the first time in 1967, inspired by the movies of comedian Charlie Chaplin.

Players are very enthusiastic about "putting" the cake on each other's faces .

Every June, this competition brings together many contestants from all over the UK and even foreign visitors. Participants in this competition this year consist of 18 teams, each with 4 teams and competing in the form of pairing.

The battle will take place within a mere 30 seconds and each team will have the task of throwing lots of cakes at the enemy. The team that scores more points will win.

It looks pretty tragic and . muddy, but this man is still very happy.

The tournament score is based on the number of discs that hit the opponent's body. Depending on the hit unit, there will be different points: 6 points for a face throw, 5 points for a chest hit and 3 points for a hand throw. If the end of a throw, the team that does not hit will be deducted 3 points.

In this day and age, the main ingredient of the "bullet" to throw back is wheat flour mixed with water.

Despite its name as the cake cake festival, in this day and age, the main ingredient of the "bullet" to throw back is wheat flour mixed with water. In addition, not only unique in the rules of playing, the cake throwing contest is also attracted by the fun costumes of the participating teams.

4. Great Ra La Grape Throwing Festival (La Raima Grape Throwing Festival)

Pobla del Duc is a small town in the city of Valencia, southeast of Spain. Besides being famous as a quality grape land, this town is also a tourist attraction thanks to the last La Raima Grape Throwing Festival held on the last Friday of August every year.

Grape will be put into the box like this, and the player will pick up each of them to throw.

Grape throwing festival was born from the 30s of the last century. Around this time, grape farmers had bumper crops, so the people of Pobla del Duc organized parties and used grapes to throw together to celebrate.

Or take the whole bunch to "beat" each other .

The participants of the grape festival are diverse, but mostly young people. Not only the people at Pobla del Duc, the grape throwing festival also attracts a large number of tourists from everywhere to attend and share joys with the indigenous people.

This is what remains after the game .

In the festival, the premium grapes are now not going to be eaten or produced, but are used to make bullets in this unique battle.

After the festival ended, the more wet the more people there were, the more lucky they were.

Participants conceived that after the festival ended, the more wet the more people, the more lucky they were, both in love and daily life.

It is estimated that about 40-90 tons of premium grapes of Garnacha Tintorera were used to throw in the grape throwing festival.