If you’re a very online kinda person, you may well have seen the tortilla slap game all over social media. If you’re not a very online kinda person, this is gonna sound strange, but it basically involves competitoer filling their mouths with water, and then proceeding to slap each other as hard as they can in the face with a tortilla, until one of them laughs and sprays their mouth water everywhere (honestly, just look it up!)
If you reckon you’d make a champion tortilla slapper, then get down to Market Place in Vauxhall over the final weekend in November, when the food hall will be hosting the second annual championships in collaboration with Venezuelan and Mexican street food purveyors Streat Latin. Spectators can get their hands on free tacos and cocktails and will be entertained by a live mariachi band and Lucha Libre wrestling, while competitors are in with a shout of securing a year’s supply of tacos and margs on the house.
Ready to get your slap on? Competitors will need to sign up here, and will be judged on slap sound, distance of water spray, the opponent’s reaction and the intactness of their tortilla. Happy slapping!