Thank you! God forbid the article should have video of the thing described in the headline lol

Wonder why they didn't just set the pot on a scale while it was empty though. Then add ingredients after. Or just fucking weigh the ingredients as they go in, idfk.

I guess they couldn't get it suspended long enough to get a measurement from the crane itself?

That pot looked flimsy to start with. Was the side just sheet metal?

thanks. what a weird headline for such an already weird event

Afterwards the giant dish of jollof rice, which also included 168kg of goat meat, was divided into individual portions and distributed to the huge crowds.

It usually means that 300 people were involved in the project at different stages of its lifetime. It probably also includes the people involved in sourcing the material, tools, people, workspace, etc. That's probably 20 people who likely never touched the final product. There likely was also some marketing and business people involved. They did probably put hands on the final product for a photo op.

Hey, he's a tribal chief and he's creating jobs. That's more than I can say for my elected officials!

Not everyone knows every person that's eligible for every job. Maybe they didn't have capable people at hand, or knew how to get in touch with them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Even if you only had incompetent people involved, and involved twice as many incompetent people as necessary in every step, I still don't see how you get over 150 people

did they forge the metal from ore they mined? lol

Given that its a rich Nigerian supported by a large company, its quite possible numbers were inflated, either by those trying to break the record to make it more impressive, or by the people contracted to make the dish who might inflate numbers so that they can be paid better (esspecially given the immense wealth inequality in Nigeria). From what I've been told, that sort of fraud is very common.