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Originally Posted by SpanishCastleAle
What is a good ratio of whole pig weight to number of people fed? With leftovers, seems a shame to do this and not have lots of leftovers.
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Well... this past year (which is not the video on this thread), I roasted a 240 lb pig and we had a solid 125 or so people. And there was freakin' NOTHIN left. I didn't even have a ziplock sandwich bag of meat left. Pig comes out of the ground about 3:00ish and it goes pretty quick... but then, once the day goes on and beers flow, Round Two and Round Three ends up coming around as the night goes on and if there's anything left after the initial chow-down, it completely goes before the last person falls down.
And that seems to be how it goes every year.
I think if you do about 2 lbs per person, you might have a little left over.
This year, we also went through something like 40 hamburgers, 36 hot dogs, something like 10 lbs of sausage... a ton of sides, etc.
Damn... I hang out with fat people.