When you are from Gers, you must have an innate sense to know how to devour duck breast without reaching satiety.
An advantage that Bernard Lasbats took advantage of on Tuesday during the “world championship of duck breast eaters” organized in Saramon, south-east of Auch.
“Preparation, there is none for me!
It's natural, I arrive there as a tourist, and we play the match, ”said the sixty-year-old, after winning his eleventh title.
He thus swallowed 930 grams of duck in five minutes, ahead of twelve other competitors present during the 2022 edition of this competition created in 1982. "After two years of Covid-19, we must restart all these festivities", s' is delighted the winner who had been fasting from the championship for two years due to the health crisis.
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To add to the difficulty, each participant must try to swallow a kilo of grilled duck breast in five minutes with plastic cutlery.
But what complicates the task of the organizers, and their ability to procure 800 kg of duck breast for the two days that the Saint-Victor fair lasts, is avian flu.
"We looked in several places, we had contracts and people were affected by avian flu, we even came to think that we were not going to maintain this day", indicates Marjorie Loraschi president of the committee. feasts of Saramon.
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