We’ve just received word that in Korea preparations are being made to set a new Guinness World Record for the number of people eating pork at one event.
The goal?
5,000 people together at one event consuming more than 1,500 pounds of pork.
If it happens, the pork-loving folks participating at the Insamgol Festival in Jeungpyeong, North Chungcheong Province, will trump the previous record of 2,000 people eating pork at the Seoul Yeouido Livestock Festival in 2003.
On one hand, we applaud the Koreans for selecting pork as part of their record-breaking event. Their selection of barbeque pulled pork sandwiches is top notch. After all, they could’ve selected okra and this event would’ve been, well…a non-event.
On the other hand, the idea of sitting idly by this Saturday while a pork lover’s fantasy takes place half a world away… when we have gazillions of bacon and pork connoisseurs in our own backyard…when Porktastic fun and flavor oozes from our very pores every football Saturday and Sunday…
Something tells us that if the fine folks of Korea prevail on Saturday (and we’ll let you know if they do), we just might be hopping into the game with both feet to show our pork-chomping brethren across the globe what a record-breaking PorkFest really looks like.
Citizens of Porktastic, get your juices flowing…
