JAKARTA, Nov. 12 (Chinese media) -- A total of 5,678
elementary school students and kindergarten children gathered at a Park in Solo,
Indonesia, on Wednesday and ate eggs together, breaking a national record for
assembling the most people for an egg-devouring event.
The event was aimed to encourage people, especially
students to consume more eggs, Rabby Susanto, chair of the Information Center
for Marketing Husbandry Products, which organized the event, was quoted by the
Jakarta Post daily as saying.
He said Indonesian people consumes far fewer eggs per
capita than the peoples in other countries. Indonesia consumes annually 88 eggs
per capita, compared with 650 in Japan, 510 in France, 450in the United States
and 330 in Britain.
The Eating Eggs Together event coincided with
Indonesian National Health Day which fell on Wednesday.
The last Eating Eggs Together event in Indonesia was
involved 4,250 participants.
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