Mexican
Businessmen Break Kebab Record
MEXICO
CITY (AP) - A group of businessmen in
the northern Mexican City of Chihuahua
broke a tasty record Friday, making a
hunk of meat on a skewer
big enough to serve 24,000 tacos.
In
the Friday event dubbed as the "Tacoton,"
the meat for a pastor taco, a variety
of the Mexican dish that consists of pork
squashed onto a stake, weighed 3.9 tons
and was 13 feet high, Mexican government
news agency Notimex reported.
Officials
from the Guinness Book of World Records
recognized the hunk of meat as the world's
"largest skewer of kebab meat,"
Notimex reported.
Portions
of the vast snack were sold with a drink
for $1 a piece to hungry spectators. Chihuahua
businessmen financed the mega taco and
gave proceeds from sales to a home for
abandoned children, Notimex said.