The African nation of Namibia was "lucky" enough to have Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have their first child there. Now, the happy couple, plus baby, have moved along, so Namibia is going to celebrate! They are going to have the worlds largest sausage cookout to mark the occasion of the star's departure. Almost five miles worth of sausage. Well, ok, officially they say this is just a publicity stunt, but the timing is certainly fortuitous, isn't it?
The southwest African country was caught up in a media furore when the Hollywood stars chose to have their first baby there last month.
It is hoping the 9 tonnes of sausages with which it plans to feed some 45,000 people in September at a Windhoek football stadium will keep up the interest.
"The Namibian record will be set with 9 tonnes of boerewors (sausages) which, if stretched, will be 7.5 kilometres (4.6 miles) long," said Uschi Ramakhutla, a spokeswoman for the Meat Company of Namibia, which is organising the event.
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to be the 44,159th person in the food line — pushing Namibia ahead of the current Guinness Book of World Records title holder for world's biggest barbecue, Australia, which hosted 44,158 people at a one-day cook-out in 1993.
That's a lot of people! Heck, that's a lot of sausage.
