Hundreds packed into bleachers and crowded around the barricade to get an up-close look at the pupusa during the full day of cooking.
Olga Hernández, a friend of one of the other pupuseros, came to support and see other Salvadorans. She feels cultural festivals like Fiesta D.C. have gotten smaller over time, but she sees how events like this allow the community to come together, Hernandez said in an interview with the Voice.
“Back in the day, in the early 2000s, it used to be huge,” Hernandez said. “It’s nice to see people and find cultural things and socialize.”
Others came not just to see the cooking of the giant pupusa, but to take a bite. Those who arrived at Fiesta D.C. early were able to get tickets to sample the finished product, which organizers estimated could feed around 2000 people.
Photo by Sydney Carroll
Ben Koele is originally from Des Moines, Iowa, where he initially tried his first pupusa.
“They have a big farmers’ market in the summer, there was always a pupusa stand,” Koele said. “My dad would always take my brother and I, we would get pupusas every Sunday morning.”
After hearing about the festival, Koele and his friends arrived early so that they could take a bite of the 20-foot pupusa once it was ready.
The pupuseros successfully achieved the Guiness World Record after four and a half hours of baking. Spectators like Koele were able to taste the pupusa and celebrated as pupuseros were presented with a plaque to mark their record.
As Amaya said, many of the pupuseros weren’t as grateful for the record as they were for the chance to connect with the Salvadoran community.
“It’s a really big thing to us,” he said, as he helped cook the pupusa. “It means a lot.”
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