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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.
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posted on
03/02/2009 7:42:33 AM PST
by
SolidWood
To: SolidWood
I thought the US budget had that beat by...a mile.
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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?")
To: SolidWood
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posted on
03/02/2009 7:47:08 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: SolidWood
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posted on
03/02/2009 7:59:22 AM PST
by
sausageseller
(http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
To: Rebelbase
Fifteen is my limit on schnitzen-gruben!
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posted on
03/02/2009 8:03:33 AM PST
by
ltc8k6
To: SolidWood
Ship a truckload of this stuff to the White House.
The occupant's head is full of it.
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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.”)
To: IbJensen
“Ship a truckload of this stuff to the White House.”
It will get sent back. Muslims don’t eat pork.
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posted on
03/02/2009 8:39:24 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Control the information and you control the people.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
My first thought was that the Croats were constructing it as an inexpensive defensive barrier...
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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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