Thousands of people turn out in Vilnius for a festival celebrating Lithuania’s well-known cold beet soup. Multiple outlets report that the event draws a large crowd on Saturday, with figures described as “tens of thousands” and organizers expecting far higher totals across the full program. The city is decorated in pink for the occasion. The festival is presented as a three-day celebration of the cold beet soup and includes a range of activities, such as races, costume displays, foam slides, and mass communal lunches. Several reports describe the setting and theme, emphasizing Vilnius’s pink decorations tied to the dish’s color. While exact attendance totals vary by outlet, they align on the scale of public interest and the festival’s focus on food-related festivities. The coverage consistently characterizes the event as an annual or recurring public celebration designed to bring visitors to Lithuania’s capital around the iconic cold beet soup.