Thousands watch the competition on a live stream. People cheer and chant like it’s a football match
In 2020, I was on a camping trip with my Swedish friend, driving through Carrbridge – a village in the Scottish Highlands about two hours from where I live in Aberdeenshire – when we passed a sign saying “Welcome to the Home of the World Porridge Championship”.
It triggered a vague memory of seeing the competition on the news as a child. When my friend looked it up, he found out that the last few winners had actually been Swedish. He started teasing me, saying: “We’re better at making porridge than you.” So I thought, “We’ll see about that.” Two years later, I ended up entering the competition myself.
