Talk:Elver Eating World Championships

Why this title?
I find only one source that refers to "Elver Eating World Championships", and it only applies that to the 2015 through 2017 events. This article is more general, and would be better with a title that covers the event historically, perhaps Elver eating competition would be a good concise generic descriptive title. Dicklyon (talk) 00:59, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * It still seems to be branded as such; see for example this Gloucestershire Live listing. I note this year's event is this Sunday, had I realised I could have asked for it to be scheduled for then. - Dumelow (talk) 08:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * That source also calls it "World elver eating championships" and "Elver Eating Championships". Hardly support for the title there. Dicklyon (talk) 02:35, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The section below has a few more things it's called, with case variations, too. I don't think this event has a proper name. Dicklyon (talk) 02:37, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

End of competition
Looking on the British Newspaper Archive (subs required), it is evident that the competition was NOT abandoned in the 1970s.

In 1987 Mark Ryder celebrated "his fifth consecutive win in the annual elver eating contest at Frampton on Severn." (Sandwell Evening Mail 21 April 1987)

The what's on section of the Gloucester News of 12 April 1990 mentions for Monday April 16; "Frampton Elver Eating Contest 11am at Three Horseshoes Inn" but Aberdeen Press and Journal, 16 April 1990 reported "the world elver-eating championships at Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, have been cancelled because the price of baby eels has soared too high - £30 a kilo."

The what's on section of the Gloucester News of 23 March 1989 had mentioned an up-coming event so this was probably the last one held. Nedrutland (talk) 08:22, 6 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Got links? Dicklyon (talk) 02:38, 7 September 2022 (UTC)