Thursday, November 13, 2008

Indonesian students make record in eating eggs together

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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