From NBC5Chicago

 

http://www.nbc5.com/news/4682492/detail.ht...994&dppid=65172

 

Although common foods outsold more unique items, there was also 6,150 pounds of hummus sold, roughly 20,000 servings of alligator on a stick and 16,000 servings of mutton biryani, an Indian dish with goat meat and Basmati rice, according to a news release.

 

Dessert was served with roughly 216,000 slices of cheesecake -- at least one sliced by Mayor Richard M. Daley himself on the second day of the festival.

 

Daley sliced into a 2,500-pound Eli's Cheescake, celebrating the 25th birthday of both the cheesecake company and the festival, office spokewoman Cindy Gatziolis said that day.

 

Other popular items sold at the Taste included:

 

45,000 breaded steak sandwiches

7,000 burritos

16,000 servings of catfish

19,000 servings of coconut shrimp

36,000 fried oysters

36,000 slices of mozzarella cheese bread

103,000 rib sandwiches

9,000 salmon fillets

3 tons of shrimp and vegetable tempura

56,000 watermelon slices

I guess everyone did more than "taste".

Those Breaded Steak Sandwiches from "Ricobenes" are phenominal.

Edited July 6, 200520 yr by Brian

damn those are some big numbers, this is why were one of the fattest cities