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The top prize of the 18th Lithuanian Mushroom Championship, the Varėna District Mayor’s Cup, remained in Varėna this year. It was won by the “Dzūkuciai” team, which was able to collect 22 kilograms of 643 grams of mushrooms in the forests of Margioniai village in 2.5 hours. The multiple winners of this “Krembliai” championship from the village of Paluknis in the Trakai district made no secret of their disappointment with such a finish to the competition, this time taking second place (18,357 kg).
“Perhaps we will do better in international competitions in Poland,” Palukni residents consoled each other.
Third place went to the “Margionių marcai” team, which gained 16,239 kg of mushrooms. Krembliai found the most boletus: 12.
According to Algė Kašėta, Mayor of Varėna District Municipality, the Mushroom Championship was just the introduction to the Mushroom Festival held in the district on the last weekend of September, and this year it became the most important event, as others had to be canceled due to the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Next year we will organize the Mushroom Festival earlier, the first weekend in September, not the last. Perhaps then nothing will stop it,” said the mayor.
Another surprise was waiting for the 17 teams that gathered for the mushroom championship: the organizers changed the rules of the competition at the last minute.
“Now the mushrooms will not have to be cut, but plucked and brought to the weighing place with stalks. The teams knew nothing of that change. If someone was tempted to prepare and hide another bucket of mushrooms somewhere in the night, they will immediately see the stems cut off, “said Champion Magistrate Audrius Korsakas.
The venue of the competition also changed: for several years in a row, the championship participants played in the Marcinkoniai forests by Lake Kastinis, and this year they had to search for mushrooms in the pine forests surrounding the village of Margioniai. Only boletus, oregano, squirrel and vegetables could be harvested, so those who lost the boletus had to collect them before weighing the catch. Those who collected the Goths along with the blinds were disappointed.
“Dzūkai collects zucchini mushrooms (boletus), cephalopods and zelionkas, and calls everyone else ‘on duty’ and leaves them needy,” he rejected the reprimand. judge.
The delegation of the Taiwan Representation in Lithuania not only patiently listened to the songs of the Margioniai Laying Theater folk ensemble, but also did not refuse to try Dzūkija mushroom soup. And the skilled craftsmen of Dzūkija showed the Taiwanese how to weave a mushroom basket called “kashik” and make a mushroom knife.
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