STO. TOMAS, Pangasinan – Jubilant townsfolk here led by Mayor Vivien Villar are confident that they have set a new record in the Guinness Book of World Records last Sunday when they made the longest barbecue measuring – 4,938 meter long-using their white glutinous corn product.
At 4:25 p.m., officials and guests headed by fifth district Rep. Mark Cojuangco led the ceremonial lighting of the 2,019 interconnected grills measuring 2.4 meters long each and where 117,840 corn ears were simultaneously grilled.
Villar said visitors including the media were amazed at the show of unity and discipline of residents of this smallest town in eastern Pangasinan.
She said that everyone behaved well during the grilling to the extent that no one crossed the streets and happily stayed at the designated area marked by continuous plastic straw so as not to distract the participants and the team that documented the event.
The grills spanned 10 barangays from Rosales up to Alcala towns.
“Except for few minor blunders, everything else was perfectly done,” Villar told The STAR.
Spectators were one in saying that this is something that can be seen only in Sto. Tomas. They were all amazed to see the fire snake through the almost five-kilometer long grills.
Even the pilot of the helicopter who was with the documentary team said the lighting was a beautiful sight up in the sky.
The original number of corn ears to be grilled was 121,000 with each grill having 60 corn ears.