Bring Your Appetite To The World’s Best Food Festivals

There are so many festivals out there these days but most of them are centered around music. Maybe you’re not a huge music fan, or the bands you like aren’t really the festival type. Well, don’t worry, because there are still festivals for you; food festivals!

Food festivals are just like music festivals except there way more satisfying and the only drugs people are taking are antacids. Here’s a festival lineup you can get behind, the world’s best food festivals.

WILDFOODS FESTIVAL (HOKITIKA, NEW ZEALAND)

Are you an adventurous eater? Then the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, New Zealand may be for you.

Here they cook up foods you would never think to eat like seagull eggs, earthworms or mountain oysters. If you’re reading this thinking “why go to New Zealand to this festival when I can stay home and puke for free?” Then you would be labeled as a non-adventurous eater and I would recommend you stick with the chicken feet and duck heads.

THE GOLDEN SPURTLE (CAIRNGORMS, SCOTLAND)

Okay okay, this next festival is a little less adventurous. The Annual Golden Spurtle is the World Porridge-Making Championships. The Golden Spurtle is the prize the winner of this competition receives. “Yeah, but what’s a spurtle?” you ask. A spurtle is a wooden stick that is used to stir a pot of porridge. Plus it’s a fun word to say. Spurtle.

A lot of people are not very adventurous eaters and you can’t get much less adventurous than porridge.

THE ONION MARKET (BERN, SWITZERLAND)

At the onion festival, you can eat delicious onion soup, onion tarts and anything else that you could think to fit an onion into, or if you want you can even eat a raw onion. Why not? It’s not like they’ll run out of onions, there are 50-tons of onions there every year.

The festival starts at 6 am because they have to get rid of all of these onions. The coolest part of this festival actually isn’t onion or food related at all, it’s the confetti war that starts at 4 pm sharp, giving you another excuse to cry when confetti shoots into your eyeball.

WATERCRESS FESTIVAL (HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND)

When you think of a food worth celebrating the first thing that probably came to your mind was watercress. The English use this herb a lot in their soups and salads and sauces.

Everyone’s favorite village of New Alresford becomes a street festival where farmers and chefs come to sell their goods.

This festival even bestows the honor of Watercress King and Queen on two lucky participants who enter the festival in a horse and cart. 

SALON DEL CHOCOLATE (QUITO, ECUADOR)

Now we’re talking. This chocolate festival in Ecuador is off the hook.

Did you know Ecuador produces more high-quality chocolate than any other country? I didn’t until I started writing this article. There are about 15,000 people who visit this festival and they have a chocolate tasting, and cooking classes and even a chocolate sculpture competition. Ecuador rules!

BACON FESTIVAL (SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA)

It looks as though California really does know how to party. The capital city of Sacramento has a bacon festival where they cook organic bacon right on the street. There’s bacon tater tots, bacon ramen, bacon ice cream and also plenty of sweet, sweet beer.

A Kevin Bacon tribute band is the icing on the bacon cake that makes this festival one not to miss.