I don't like crickets, oh no, I love them....

Hi Jo The radish festival was a mystery to us until we googled apparently, nobody really knows how the radish carving festival started, although it is believed to have originated in 1897, when the then mayor of the Ox started the first exhibition of radish art. In the last century, markets during Christmas eve sold salt-dried fish and vegetables for customers coming out of the midnight mass. To differentiate the items from one another, vendors sculpted their radishes into tiny figures, sometimes even decorating them with other vegetables such as onions or lettuce. The radishes seemed to be a hit with the housewives then, as these women sought out the most interesting sculptures to add to the air of cheer to their Christmas tables. Every year since the first exhibition, the best displays receive cash prizes. The normal radishes people eat here are the same size as the ones at home. They seem to leave some grow for a lot longer so that they are big enough to carve into bigger stuff. It was pretty cool. Hope everything is good with you K xx