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 pancake race
FLIPPIN' flour fun was had by all on Tuesday as the streets and frying pans were lined for the seventh annual pancake race.
Businesses from across Windsor entered the Flippin' Pancake Race, organised by the Windsor and Eton Town Partnership, which looks set to raise more than £500 for the Diamond Jubilee Monument and Christmas Lights Appeal.
Competitors dressed as 15th century housewives at the race in Windsor Royal Shopping Centre and Cafe Rouge's French Flippers battered away the competition to beat High Street-based Leap Frog in the final - with 11 teams left wiping the egg from their faces and looking like lemons.
Kayleigh's Cake Crew, from Macdonald Hotel, won the silver medal in a tightly fought flip-off against the Tourist Information Centre, while the Castle Hotel and Sir Christopher Wren hotel were jointly awarded the fancy dress prize.
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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