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Croquemon Go: Spain invents twist on game to ‘eat ’em all’

If moving around the city hunting virtual monsters isn’t really your thing, but grazing on tapas on a bar crawl is, then Croquemon Go is quite possibly the game for you.

Published: 3 August 2016 13:48 CEST
Croquemon Go: Spain invents twist on game to 'eat 'em all'
Photo: thespanishcuisine.com

Food blogger Pepe Montford has invented a parody of the popular Nintendo smartphone game Pokémon Go by encouraging foodies to seek out the best croquetas on offer in Cadiz.

“If people the world over can hunt Pikachus then why can’t they hunt down croquettes?” he asks on the blog cosasdecome.es.

READ MORE Recipe: How to make Spanish ham croquettes

The game involves walking into a Cadiz bar, asking for a plate of 'croquetas', photographing them, eating them and then posting the photo of social media.

“The photo can show a whole croquette, with a bite taken out if it, pierced by a fork, or you can even send in a ‘croqueselfie’ to share with the world your croquette joy,” explains Montford.

Dozens of people have already entered the game tagging #CroquemonGou on Twitter. 


Roberto Rodriguez snapped this cheeky croquette in Cadiz's Popeye restaurant.

The competition runs until August 12th when the best entries will be awarded a prize. Click on the photo below for details on how to take part. 

 

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French mayor bans Pokemon Go app from his village

Bressolles, a small village almost smack bang in the middle of France, has become the first in France to try and ban the new gaming sensation Pokemon Go.

Published: 17 August 2016 11:06 CEST
French mayor bans Pokemon Go app from his village
Photo: AFP
The mayor of Bressolles, Fabrice Beauvois, believes Pokemon Go is simply too much of a threat to his 800-strong community. 
 
He made headlines on Wednesday after signing a municipal decree to ban the game, and he reportedly contacted the game's producer Niantic in an effort to get the village wiped off the Pokemon map, reported Le Progres newspaper. 
 
Beauvois said that the game caused “too much distraction for pedestrians and for motorists who are looking at their phones while driving”.
 
He said that he believed it was his duty to prevent what he called “a contagious and uncontrolled spread of the phenomenon”, not to mention that it is “dangerously addictive” for young people.
 
He also called for people to form evening groups in a bid to help prevent people from playing the game. 
 
 
While such a ban might be hard to enforce without the help of Niantic, the mayor is not wrong to think the game can be dangerous.

Indeed, France has already seen several accidents involving motorists and Pokemon. 
 
In July France saw at least two car accidents because of the game. And some teens were arrested in southern France for bursting into a police barracks trying to hunt Pokemon. 
 
And while no village or town in France has managed to ban the game yet, it has been banned from certain sites. 
 
Earlier this month, a French World War I memorial was removed from Pokemon Go following complaints about players gathering to do battle at a site containing the remains of 130,000 soldiers.
 
Elsewhere, authorities in Iran banned the app over unspecified “security concerns”, with the Pentagon in the US urging its troops to avoid the game too.
 
French teens storm police barracks in hunt for PokemonPhoto: AFP
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