Flippin' good fun at pancake day race
Richard Cutcher • Published 21 Feb 2012 18:00
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FLIPPIN' MARVELLOUS: The Observer team prepare for the flour-based fun
FLIPPIN' flour fun was had by all as the streets and frying pans were lined for the seventh annual pancake race.
The Slough Observer entered a thrilling team of three into the Windsor and Eton Flippin Pancake Race, organised by the Windsor and Eton Town Partnership, but struggled to find their feet in the early heats and were quickly and embarrassingly eliminated from the competition.
John Dickens, Slough reporter, said: "I don't want to name any names, but one of my team-mates let us down badly by trying to showboat. I think the watching crowd went to his head. We were doing really well and suddenly it all went wrong."
Competitors were required to dress as 15th century housewives and Cafe Rouge's French Flippers battered away the competition to beat Windsor High Street based Leap Frog in the final - with 11 other teams left wiping the egg from their faces and looking like lemons.
Edvin Pashaj, captain of the French Flippers, said: "It feels great. We are very happy and we deserved this. We have worked hard for it and had a lot of practice with the pancakes."
Presenting the winners with the prestigious frying pan gong, Paul Roach, Windsor and Eton town centre manager, said: "In all the years we have been doing this I have never seen a team rise through the competition like today. They were very impressive and there was a non-chalance about them."
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