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Indonesian students make new record in eating eggs together

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-13 10:05

JAKARTA -- 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.