There is a well known and very popular saying - 'Too many cooks spoil the broth'. In fact this is untrue. A more factual saying, in keeping with our modern society, would be 'A non-prime number of cooks spoil the broth'. Hence the failure of the "Mississippi 7918 man stew-up" compared to the much more famous and successful Portuguese event 'The ox soup Extravaganza' where no less than 104729 talented cooks were involved last year.