Strawberry sundaes record smashed at this year’s Ekka
The record number of strawberry sundaes sold at the Ekka has been broken, with the sweet treat proving a huge hit. This could be why.
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The record number of strawberry sundaes sold at the Ekka has been broken, with the sweet treat proving a huge hit.
The previous record, set last year, was 127,000 and by Saturday night 136,000 sundaes had been sold at this year’s event.
With a day of sales remaining, it is expected by the end of Sunday more than 150,000 sundaes would have been sold, smashing last year’s record.
This year all the strawberry sundae sales will go to Silicosis research - an occupational lung disease typically hurting tradies caused by them inhaling silica dust.
The Common Good general manager Chloe Nguyen said she had received great feedback by people wanting the $6 treat.
“I think people are connecting with the fact that it’s something supporting tradies,” she said.
“They see it as a way that’s great for their Ekka trip but also means something more than just buying an ice-cream.”
By the end of Sunday it is expected the funds raised would have supported 3800 hours of research for the disease.
“It would be great to also acknowledge we had about 1750 volunteers out on site so that’s an incredible amount of volunteers and that equals nearly 8000 hours of volunteering that was contributed to making the sundae stalls run,” Ms Nguyen said of getting the sundaes out into the public.
This year about 7.2 tonnes of strawberries were used. Ms Nguyen said the woman who they ordered the strawberries from said it was the most strawberries ordered for the Ekka in a decade.
“She said we would have ordered the most strawberries ever and she’s been doing the strawberries for 40 years,” she said.
“The last record was in 2013. We are going to have received from the farms more strawberries than we ever have in the last 10 years.”
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