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Pub landlord defends lockdown competitive eating contest as ‘elite sport’

Pub landlord defends lockdown competitive eating contest as ‘elite sport’

Craig Harker is the landlord of The George Pub and Grill in Stockton-on-Tees. (Reach) A pub landlord has defended describing a competitive eating contest that took place during lockdown as an “elite sport”. The George Pub and Grill in Stockton held an event that saw five “athletes” attempt to eat the world’s hottest chillies on Saturday – two days after national lockdown restrictions in England were imposed. Landlord Craig Harker was hit with a complaint that the event, that was… Source link

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