Comté, Morbier and… Cancoillotte. In Franche-Comté, this melted cheese is a source of pride. An emblem that even has its very official world eating championship since this year, organized on Sunday in Larians-et-Munans (Haute-Saône).
The competition was simple: you had to swallow, with a spoon, as many jars of cancoillotte as possible in ten minutes. All while making the packaging clean! In this little game, it was a resident of the same department, Gianni Massardi, who stood out.
The thirty-year-old (35 years old) ate nine pots, or two kilos of the precious cheese. Easy? “I don’t have any training, I just stopped eating on Thursday evening,” explained this regular at the event to France Bleu Besançon. He had already won the competition four times before becoming world champion.