Mankind 101....World Record Barbecue

A man is many things. Perhaps one of man's greatest accomplishment is his use of fire. And so gives evolution of cooking meats. Now, there has gots to be a world record for just about everything imaginable. But perhaps the sweetest of all is the biggest barbecue.

How freakin' great would it be to walk around in a massive plume of barbecue smoke for blocks. Bumping into people because you cannot see them and coming away with sauce stains on your shirt. The overwhelming smell of tons of charcoal and tons of meat and gallons of sauces.

My stomach has never growled with such ferociousness.

So here's the story. Uruguay. Yep Uruguay. Montevideo, Uruguay to be precise, has put on the biggest and baddest record setting barbecue to ever contribute to global warming as well as global hunger. A whopping 1,250 Uruguayan cooks slapped down 26,400 pounds of beef and began to grill, smoke and slather. And beef is what Uruguay has a lot of. As a ranching nation, they exported over $1 billion worth last year. Heres a tidbit from Yahoo! News,

"The barbecue was so big that firefighters were called in to light the grills and make sure the flames did not get out of hand. It beat the previous record of 17,600 pounds (8,000 kilograms) of beef, Girton said."

Using over 6 tons of charcoal and setting up 1,500 metal barbecue stands, they have all become officially the coolest people in the world. Also a record.

I am only disappointed that no one invited me to this bash. And I am also sure there are some angry beef grillin' Texans out there that could be putting together some sort of counter attack to bring this record to the U.S. Eh, who knows.

Also....the pic is of a wildfire. So no disrespect to those who might have lost something in it. Just trying to be creative.