NEWS FEED
The cheese and chilli festival at West Parley lived right up to its name.
With tasty cheesy stalls and a whole range of chilli’d food and drink, visitors were in for a spicy time.
Relocated to a new field, the festival has grown year on year with many additional stalls including furniture, gifts, dog treats, kitchen accessories and clothing. A range of entertainment was laid on too with live music, children’s entertainment, drum sessions and a bouncy castle.
The highlight of both days was the chilli eating contest sponsored by Chimouli. On Saturday this was won by Christopher Lee a consultant vascular surgeon from Bournemouth. He and five other entrants were plied with chillis starting with the mild purple tiger measuring only 5,000 on the Scoville heat scale, to the hottest in the world – the Carolina reaper measuring 2 million 200,000 on the scale. All, bar Chris and one other contestant, had dropped by the wayside by then and he went on to be receive the chilli title and a £20 note after a tie-breaking 10th round.
Was it worth it? “Yes,” said Chris who seemed well-pleased with his accolade.
