Making a pumpkin pie in sky

Making the largest pumpkin pie to promote locally grown pumpkins is more like an entertainment show for the media than an effective measure to help farmers solve their problems in selling their produce, says an article on guancha.gmw.cn. Excerpts:

Chefs in Changsha, Hunan province, made a pumpkin pie weighing more than 900 kilograms with a diameter of 4 meters over the weekend and named it "rescue pumpkin" in a bid to help farmers sell the 1.75 million kg of pumpkins harvested in the city. The harvest is, however, too large to be consumed by the local people.

Chinese people like to set world records by making the largest, highest and longest things. No matter how large the pumpkin pie is, it cannot be said to be the result of an innovative idea, for a person who makes a huge pie does not necessarily possess better techniques than other pie makers.