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Casing the sausage festival

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February 28, 2009 3:07 pm
By Sheila Lennon

Balkan Insight reports that Serbs Again Try For Record-Breaking Sausage:

The small village of Turija, some 30 km north of Vojvodina's capital Novi Sad, lives for their international sausage festival in the last week of February, when each year they try to break the world record and make a sausage at least a centimetre longer than the year before.

This year the sausage vying for its place in the Guinness Book of Records will be 2,025 metres (6643 feet) long. ...

 

The photo of the unidentified Turija butcher is from AP.

 

(I'm testing some features with this post. Sorry if it's squirrely.)

 

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