Snail race

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Numbered racing snails

A snail race is a competition held for the amusement of the spectators, which is primarily aimed at children. Several land snails are used; the spotted garden snail is often used. The snail that has covered a given distance first wins. Often the snails are placed in the middle of a circle so that they can crawl in all directions. The most frequently chosen distance to be overcome is around 30 to 50 centimeters, the known best time for a 13-inch route is around two minutes. The command “Ready, Steady, Slow!” Has established itself as the start signal. Numbers are stuck or painted on the snail shells to distinguish the animals. The use of garlic water at the finish line is said to attract snails.

The term snail race is often used as a synonym for slow competitive processes.

Competitions (selection)

There are regular snail races in different countries. The most famous competition has been held on a cricket field in Congham, Norfolk , UK , since 1960 : the World Championship Snail Racing . The races there, in which around 200 snails are used, attract supraregional media interest. As with other snail races in Great Britain, betting can be placed on competition results. In 1999 the beer producer Guinness organized a snail race in London, the "Guinness Gastropod Championship". In the following year, a Guinness commercial ( Bet on Black , part of the Good things come to those who wait campaign ) focused on an oversized snail race. The spot won a silver medal at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival . The Grand Championship Snail Race was first held in 1992 in the village of Snailwell in Cambridgeshire . Around the beginning of May, a snail race takes place in Osenbach in Alsace. In March, is in the Bielefeld district Dornberg the Dornberger worm race organized. The Swiss singer Polo Hofer organized snail races in his garden in Bern .

Others

  • The reform pedagogue Célestin Freinet was inspired by a snail race in his class in 1920 to buy a printing press for teaching.
  • In 2014, the artist Gerald Zahn presented the “Snail Race” project, in which 15 numbered snails lived in a 1.5 square meter plywood box, as part of the “Art Hosts” exhibition of the KÖR - Art in Public Space under curator Gerald Straub.
  • The snail race (original title: La course de l'escargot ) is a French comedy film from 1997.
  • Schneckenrennen is the name of a game published by Zoch Verlag (1987).
  • The US animated series SpongeBob SquarePants named the episode No. 55/27 of the third season. The big worm race (The Great Snail Race) .

Web links

Wiktionary: snail race  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b World Snail Racing Championships , World Snail Racing
  2. ^ "Terry" is snail world champion , Focus Online according to the German press agency , July 19, 2009
  3. ↑ a b Ready, steady, escargot , BBC News , December 10, 1999. In English
  4. ^ Murray T. Pringle, The Galopping Gastropod , Boys' Life ( Boy Scouts of America ), Sep. 1965, p. 68
  5. ↑ Examples: "The snail race as a name for the Bundesliga relegation battle is almost an exaggeration." , In: The HSV and the weakness of others ( memento from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at NDR.de , May 4, 2014; "And so currently the entire tapeworm on Bundesliga teams between fourth and tenth place inevitably resembles the field of participants in a snail race, in which no team makes decisive progress in the fight for Champions League qualification." , In: Daniel Meuren, Bundesliga glossary: ​​Schneckenrennen , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (faz.net), March 17, 2013
  6. ↑ Stefanie Bisping, Eberhard Bort, World Championship Snail Racing , Baedeker Travel Guide Great Britain and Northern Ireland , Baedeker Travel Guide , ISBN 3-829-71380-0 , 2013, p. 118
  7. ↑ Duncan Macleod, Who are you: What the Guinness ad says about you , The Guardian , December 10, 1999. In English
  8. ^ Gully Cragg, The Fine Art of the Big Sell , The Independent , March 11, 2003. In English
  9. ↑ Snails race well for village fete , BBC News , July 13, 2007
  10. ↑ Baedeker Travel Guide, Alsace / Vosges , ISBN 3-829-79168-2 , Baedeker Allianz Travel Guide, 2013
  11. ↑ Served: No “Musig” in the bistro , Der Bund , October 19, 2010
  12. ↑ Victor Acker: The French Educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry into How His Ideas Shaped Education , ISBN 978-0-739-15524-0 , Lexington Books, 2007. pp. 54 ff
  13. ↑ Snail Race / Schneckenrennen ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geraldlm.vs120136.hl-users.com archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Gerald Zahn