'biggest
barbecue in the world' in Montevideo on April 13, 2008. In the attempt
to get the Guinness World Record for the 'biggest barbecue in the
world', 1,252 people grilled 12,000 kilograms of beef on a single grill
totalling 1,500 metres in length. (Reuters)
A meats association in Uruguay on
Sunday hosted the world’s biggest barbeque on a single grill totalling
1,500 meters in length, media reported.
As many as 1,252 volunteer cooks grilled
12 metric tonnes of beef and about 20,000 spectators cried with joy
when a Guinness judge confirmed the barbecue record had been broken..
“I’m very proud to be Uruguayan. We have the best beef and now we have the world’s biggest barbecue,” said one of the cooks.
The organizer said the gargantuan cookout is held to promote the country’s image as a major cattle producer.
“Uruguay is very small, it’s not known
for other events so we have to use these kinds of gimmicks so people
find out where Uruguay is and what it has to offer,” said Fernando Perez
Abella, vice president of the National Meats Institute, or INAC in
Spanish.
