LVOV (RIA Novosti) - A festival dedicated to a Ukrainian specialty - salted or smoked white pork fat known as ‘salo' - has been held in the northwestern Ukrainian city of Lutsk, the city administration said on Monday.
Finely chopped pig underbelly fat is popular in Ukraine, and is often eaten with bread and garlic and a shot of vodka, and added to the national beet soup borshch. Throughout Eastern Europe, salo, along with peppered vodka known as horilka, is seen as a characteristic part of Ukrainian cuisine.
A highlight of Sunday's event was a salo speed-eating competition. Eight contestants raced to consume one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of pork fat with bread, onion and water. Last year's "salo king", 51-year-old Volodymr Stryhaniv, was declared the winner again, although he failed to equal last-year's record time of 20 minutes.
During the event, the city's authorities attempted to set a record by creating a 100-kg (220-lb) salo cake with over 50 layers of fat. The 1.6-meter (5-feet) cake was declared "the world's largest," although the record was not officially registered.
In addition, local chefs made a 23-meter (75-foot) salo sandwich. The sandwich was much shorter than last year's which stretched to 70 meters (230 feet). During the event, a Salo Lovers' Party was established.
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