The world’s biggest pupusa measuring 33 feet wide and weighing about 200 pounds surpassed the world record at a fair held in a San Salvador park.
The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador declared pupusas the national dish of El Salvador. Celebrations are held on National Pupusa Day, of course!
If you lived in pre-Columbian El Salvador, you would have recognized pupusas because of their similarity to our modern version with one exception; early pupusas were shaped like half moons and filled with vegetables by the inventive Pipil tribes of western El Salvador.
