{"id":67771,"date":"2025-12-25T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herr-rau.de\/wordpress\/?p=67771"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:10:02","slug":"the-leek-slasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herr-rau.de\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/the-leek-slasher.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Leek Slasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='text-align:right;'><small>(<a href='https:\/\/www.herr-rau.de\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/the-leek-slasher.htm#comments'>6 Kommentare.<\/a>)<\/small> <\/div>\n<p>Auf der Suche nach Rezepten stie\u00df ich auf das:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Leek growing can be a very serious business with the secrets for prize leeks handed down from generation to generation. Rivalry is intense. There are stories of leeks being destroyed and people sleeping on their allotments to guard their prized leeks from harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently a reader wrote in to tell me that as a young lad, he would sleep on a dusty armchair in the shed with his uncle before a leek show. The leek slasher was a hated figure, one small cut on a leek would mean it couldn\u2019t be shown, even if it was a potential prize winner. The prizes for winning are valuable so this was a serious business.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/dragonsandfairydust.co.uk\/regional-recipes-leek-pudding\/\">https:\/\/dragonsandfairydust.co.uk\/regional-recipes-leek-pudding\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So&#8230; leek slashing, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ein wenig Recherche brachte einen BBC-Beitrag aus dem Jahr 1970 (Quelle: Facebook BBC) zutage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 480;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.herr-rau.de\/wordpress\/archiv\/leek_slashing_1970.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oookay. Aber die BBC hat auch mal einen Beitrag \u00fcber Spaghettib\u00e4ume gebracht. &#8222;Feeding them indescribable home-made fertiliser&#8220;, hm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Es gibt aber auch Balladen dar\u00fcber. Tommy Worked Late (The Leek Slasher&#8217;s Lament) by Geordie Wilson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tommy Worked Late (The Leek Slasher&#039;s Lament) by Geordie Wilson\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZEhfgNvpxw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wie gro\u00df so ein Lauch werden kann, zeigt die Sunniside Leek Show, atemlos begonnen mit &#8222;It&#8217;s the annual leek show at Sunniside Club&#8220;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunniside Leek Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mxJDfQYVjnQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesens- und h\u00f6renswert: &#8222;Death at the Leek Show&#8220; von Ed Pickford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed-pickford.co.uk\/deathattheleekshow.html\">http:\/\/www.ed-pickford.co.uk\/deathattheleekshow.html<\/a>, mit einem unerwarteten T\u00e4ter als Leek Slasher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was ich immer noch nicht wei\u00df: Ist das so eine Wolpertinger-Sache? War das mal ernst gemeint?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(6 Kommentare.) Auf der Suche nach Rezepten stie\u00df ich auf das: Leek growing can be a very serious business with the secrets for prize leeks handed down from generation to generation. Rivalry is intense. There are stories of leeks being destroyed and people sleeping on their allotments to guard their prized leeks from harm. 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