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Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is an annual weekend festival in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Based on the original German Oktoberfest, it is billed as the largest Oktoberfest celebration in the United States. First held in 1976, it attracts an estimated 500,000 visitors every year in late September. It is located along six blocks of East 5th Street in Downtown Cincinnati. As of 2016, Oktoberfest will be held on Third Street in order to clear room for Cincinnati Streetcar operations.
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Oktoberfest Zinzinnati claims the world record for the largest Chicken Dance with 48,000 participants in 1994. It also boasts approximately 87,542 metts, 80,500 brats, 64,000 sauerkraut balls, 56,250 sausages, 24,640 potato pancakes, 20,000 cream puffs, 16,002 strudel, 6,000 jumbo pickles, 3,600 pounds (1,600 kg) sauerkraut, 1,875 pounds (850 kg) German potato salad, 702 pounds (318 kg) Limburger cheese, 700 pigtails, 400 pickled pigs feet, and 23,004 soft pretzels – including giant six-pound (2.7 kg) pretzels made by Servatii Pastry Shop, a Cincinnati German bakery.
Across the Ohio River, Covington, Kentucky's MainStrasse Village holds another Oktoberfest celebration annually.