Stephen Russell wrote:

> I'm throwing a party at church and was curious on the volume of meat to get.
> Feeding probably 50 couples but it could raise to 75. That's 100 to 150
> people for the math impaired
>
> This is Memphis so pig is on the menu. We decided to do a large # of butts
> so we could get them done in the same day, and ribs. Off the top of my head
> 2 cases of Baby Back ribs or do I need 3? How many butts is the bigger
> question?
>
> This is all for Thursday night before the July 4th weekend.
>
> We have a few smokers on trailers that can handle this volume !!!!
>

I have no experience with serving this many people, but I seem to
remember someone who did saying that people will eat as many ribs as you
put out there (seems this might be specially true of baby backs), and
then move on to graze the other meats. In smaller groups, my experience
conforms to that.