Sydney, Australia, Jun 11, 2008 / 00:12 am
World Youth Day 2008 organizers, planning a massive barbeque for pilgrims, have placed orders for food supplies for the massive event that will take place this July. About 25 million items have been ordered for the up to 125,000 expected international visitors and 60,000 Australian attendees.
Geoff Morris, Director of Pilgrim Services, said 3.5 million meals will be served during the event, including 900,000 hot meals provided by the Victoria-based Easyfood.
“World Youth Day will be a fantastic event, and my team has the very special challenge of planning to feed the largest mobilization of young people in Australia’s history,” Morris said.
“We want to provide pilgrims with ‘a good feed’ and a little bit of an Australian taste. We have tried to do that by including some of our more iconic items such as Tim Tams, Weet-Bix crunch, vegemite, lamingtons and good old baked beans!”