Organisers of an annual sausage festival in the Serbian village of Turija today said they had made the world's longest sausage.
Twelve butchers used the meat of 28 pigs, 40 kilos of paprika, 50 kilos of salt, two kilos of pepper and five kilos of garlic to make a sausage 2020 metres long, the Tanjug news agency reported.

They had been preparing the sausage for four days, but "unfortunately, the representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records did not come to register the new world record for the longest sausage", the agency said.

The Kobasicijada (sausage festival) was held in the northern Serbian town this weekend for the 20th time despite protests by a local chapter of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The church had demanded the organisers postpone it as the event came during Lent, the 40-day fast ahead of Easter.

"The festival has always been held in the last week of February and we offer fish and meatless food to Orthodox believers who are fasting," the agency quoted one of the organisers, Miroslav Meduric, as saying.