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Croatia cooks up 'world's largest' sausage
Yahoo News ^ | Sat Feb 14 | AFP

Posted on 03/02/2009 7:42:32 AM PST by SolidWood

VINKOVCI, Croatia (AFP) – Croatians on Saturday cooked up what they claim to be the world's largest sausage, measuring 530 metres (1,738 feet).

Hundreds of locals gathered in the main square of Vinkovci in the country's east and grilled the giant sausage, made with 400 kilogrammes of pork, 10 kilos of salt, 2.5 kilos of spices and 3.5 kilos of garlic bought for a local farm, the town hall said.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: croatia; pork; record; sausage; serbia

A Serbian town now challenges the Croatian sausage and mulls to out-sausage it.

1 posted on 03/02/2009 7:42:33 AM PST by SolidWood
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To: SolidWood

I thought the US budget had that beat by...a mile.


2 posted on 03/02/2009 7:44:10 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: SolidWood

3 posted on 03/02/2009 7:47:08 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: SolidWood

My dream come true.


4 posted on 03/02/2009 7:59:22 AM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: Rebelbase

Fifteen is my limit on schnitzen-gruben!


5 posted on 03/02/2009 8:03:33 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: SolidWood
Ship a truckload of this stuff to the White House.

The occupant's head is full of it.

6 posted on 03/02/2009 8:08:27 AM PST by IbJensen (In 2008, Americans foolishly used their freedom to vote for “chains” not “change.”)
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To: IbJensen

“Ship a truckload of this stuff to the White House.”

It will get sent back. Muslims don’t eat pork.


7 posted on 03/02/2009 8:39:24 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Control the information and you control the people.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

My first thought was that the Croats were constructing it as an inexpensive defensive barrier...


8 posted on 03/02/2009 12:55:58 PM PST by philled (This 'stimulus money' will stimulate just as 'protection money' protects. -- Rei Shinozuka)
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