Fishy faces

Press, 4 March 1982, Page 1

Fishy faces

A wide variety of eating styles marked a students' chocolate-fish-eating contest held at Canterbury University yesterday. Nancy Zjilstra (left) was content to nibble away delicately and Ross Dalzell (centre)) took them a mouthful at a time. John Marshall, however, tried a more ambitious approach by cramming them into his mouth in tens. His initiative did not pay off: he was disqualified for not eating the fish; The contest was held on the riverbank behind the Students’ Union Building as part of the student-orienta-tion programme. The eventual winner was Peter Linsott, who ate more than six of the fish in one minute to qualify. In the “final,” he was the first to eat five of the fish.

It was a stipulation of the judges that the winner had to whistle at the end of eating the five fishes to prove that he had swallowed them all. Mr Linsott, grinning through brown-coloured lips, could only blow, but that was allowed. When asked if he felt sick, he said, “No.” “The Press” reporter left as the chocolate-fish-throw-ing competition was about to start (about 400 of the fish still had to be disposed of).