Newsflash! Worlds Longest BBQ Record BROKEN! Shockwaves Sent Throughout the World and Sadness Throughout the Vegan/Veg Community.

The Vegans were pissed and thought it was gross (and even staged a small protest) but Danny Girton, the Guinness World Records judge thought “it was all so beautiful”. Uruguay, the little country with a big heart (yup, just made that up), had it’s moment in the spotlight on Tuesday, April 14th when they won the Guinness Book of World Record’s previously held by Mexico from 2006 and by 4 tons. The old beef grilling record held by Mexico for grilling 17,600 pounds of beef was quickly smashed by Uruguay with their 26,400 pounds! That’s some load of beef!

More than 20,000 beef-crazed fans were in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, to cheer on the more than 1250 grillers. The 1-mile long grill, set up by the Army and the 6 tons of charcoal, lit up by firefighters, brought excitement to the city. The leader of the INAC (National Meats Institute) believes ‘gimmics’ like this event can put Uruguay on the map. Does this event make you want to go find Uruguay on the map? (Here’s a hint: Look around Argentina and Brazil – if you don’t know where to locate these countries on a map, please stop reading our blog cause I’m frightened.)

Beef is one one Uruguays biggest exports and they are one of the leaders of beef exporters in Latin America. It brought in about $817 million in revenue for the ‘little engine that could’ (yeah, made that cheesy gem up too).

Maybe the vegans/veggies would have been happier to go to the Phillipines for the longest corn grill competition? According to my research (which wasn’t very extensive), in Feb. 2008, the Phillipines grilled 117,840 ears of corn on 2014 grills over 3 miles long!! Although it’s not meat, they had to use 7,000 grillers to keep up. In my mind, sounds like the corn won this one, huh?

4 thoughts on “Newsflash! Worlds Longest BBQ Record BROKEN! Shockwaves Sent Throughout the World and Sadness Throughout the Vegan/Veg Community.

  1. Did see this the other day on the news; quite unbelievable.

    Amy, as for keeping up with events- I read about them in is my blog burning and sticky date (links are on my main blog), most of the events correlate to what I’m currently cooking or have already cooked. Those are the easiest ones to enter an entry for. 🙂

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