1978: HARE PIE SCRAMBLE | A Taste of Britain | BBC Archive

As part of an Easter Monday tradition going back to 1770, the tiny Leicestershire village of Hallaton does battle with its neighbour, Medbourne. The two main events are Hare Pie Scrambling and Bottle-Kicking, which centre on throwing food and fighting over barrels of beer.
If you’re looking for an Easter holiday of bunnies, bruises and brutality, you’ve come to the right place.
Clip taken from A Taste of Britain: Forard, Forard, originally broadcast on BBC Two, Tuesday 8 August, 1978.
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[@1972hermanoben]

“The pubs have already been open for three hours, and everybody’s in a jolly mood” 😂😂😂

[@kludgie]

Commentary provided by the legendary Derek Cooper - a voice as rich as the finest burgundy.

[@onlyme219]

What a pleasant day out for all the family 😱

[@M_Bamboozled]

Ah, quaint medieval fun and games.

[@johnathanryan2117]

3.29 " Why did he drop it?" Erm,cos he was having seven shades hoofed out of him? 😂😂

[@eUK95]

No he wasn't, he was running and dropped it

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Been to Hallerton, had a great Sunday lunch☺️

[@tonythetyger99]

Friend of my dad went to watch the bottle kicking one year... came away with a broken arm!

[@fredo1070]

And then they sacrificed a police officer in the wicker man.

[@M_Bamboozled]

"No, no, dear God!..." 🎼🎶🎶 "Summer is icumen in, Loudly sing Cuckoo, Grows the seed and blows the mead, And springs the wood anew. Sing Cuckoo!..." 🎶🎶

[@anneominous7172]

Gently, Johnny...

[@arthurfonzarelli9331]

I've always been a fan of hair pie! 😛

[@ddegraw71]

"...frothing at the bung..."

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

How lovely!

[@blackcatcoffee4693]

Very interesting

[@low_key_f_key3237]

Woah, the ending.....

[@grbadalamenti]

Way before tiktok italian grandmothers😂😂😂

[@chap666ish]

Makes me proud to come from Leicestershire :-)

[@danielktdoranie]

Good old hair pie

[@Joedirt3349]

Oh that's nasty...

[@danielktdoranie]

@@Joedirt3349 is it?

[@DanielGlover]

and there it is. Too easy.

[@SeaBU1SCW_ret]

Back when I was younger I could enjoy hare pie for hours.

[@tomsharpe2251]

Hare pie

[@Smoneey]

Clear links to old fashioned football

[@djtomoy]

A few of those would go nicely with ten pints of bitter

[@gv-k4f7g5b9]

that's humanity for you, the hare save the two old ladies and they turn it into a pie 🤦‍♂

[@sirmoanalot3779]

When do they burn the effigy as a sacrifice?

[@RedRobertify]

Now I see why Cooper called it "barbaric"

[@securityrobot]

Hair Pie: Bake 1

[@robbflynn4325]

Into allsorts of stuff in these little English villages.

[@EcosseZA]

Lassies wouldn't get away with a harey pie these days.

[@Myacckt]

They… throw it to the crowd what?

[@mw2000]

God, this country was weird

[@patavinity1262]

It's a shame they didn't make several and get some plates out and feed everyone properly, rather than make just one which most don't get to have and throw it all in the air.

[@laerwen]

Right? Seems like a waste of food, honestly :(

[@fishbowl925]

They needed to get it out quick so they could get to the punch up

[@franktechmaniac7488]

Pretty sure the almighty knew why he put these people on an island.

[@rudiruttger]

rather mean, that

[@joewellfair8238]

That didn't do much to stop them though!

[@zippy963]

The recent look like childs play compared to this!

[@DanielGlover]

Looks a nice activity but throwing it, bit of a waste, certain amount on the floor. The beer barrel thing. muddy, downhill. Accidents. Bet it not done now or like that. H+S. Nice video.

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

lmao, british american football

[@hopebgood]

"This is a local shop for local people."

[@vintagethrifter2114]

Are those the people that live locally?

[@Ryan-bn3qk]

pre-globalism

[@matthewtrow5698]

All of this would clearly be banned in modern Britain - so many broken Health & Safety rules! (and broken bones) Not sure that's a good idea, when there's no outlet, far worse things happen, as we see all too frequently in the news.

[@barrymore87]

What do you mean would be banned in modern Britain? This is modern Britain we live in now and this is not banned.

[@laerwen]

@@barrymore87 Some people like to think that whatever they conceive to be "their" way of life in Britain would be banned today because they want to insinuate they are oppressed. They're not and sound really silly.

[@dantaylor757]

@@barrymore87 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHPQfYNon5p2i7c

[@mrrusty3330]

hare pie is nice but i prefer beaver

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

😂😂😂😂😂😊

[@DanielGlover]

Clever, was looking for that comment and only 20 so far.

[@dainbramage3558]

poontang pie is my fave

[@sirmoanalot3779]

I prefer cream pies

[@steven401ytx]

There's a mosque there now

[@jamesrey4275]

Hey BBC where are all the black people that supposedly built Briton?

[@Joedirt3349]

In the upper management

[@goldieandblackie]

Chained up in the pub cellar😄

[@Smoneey]

In metropolitan centres building them, not in the rural area that hasn’t been built upon in decades

[@selfraisingsugar898]

They were building it whilst the whites beat each other up over a barrel 😝

[@laerwen]

Why are you looking for Black people in backwater England in 1978? What a odd person.

[@obaidjilani8734]

Thank goodness for immigration!

[@martinmorbak8778]

Back when Britain was british. Wonderful.

[@HowieHoward-ti3dx]

Yeah and none of that awful multiculturalism and DIE-versity.

[@fishbowl925]

Good clean fun, the “woke” brigade would hate it.

[@MazuiLakon]

All White all right ❤❤❤

[@laerwen]

White supremacists see old video of Britain and somehow can't help but outing themselves. Like moths to a flame, if moths were fascists.

[@HowieHoward-ti3dx]

Like it should be.

[@hjhbgikbx5748]

3:42 lol

[@paulkerridge6001]

I miss England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@vanillakush1337]

gone forever

[@HowieHoward-ti3dx]

@@vanillakush1337 You can still get it back.