It’s the same every year for the Blessed Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church festival in Pocatello, ID – long lines of thousands queuing for the food and fun, but Father Constantine Zozos always asks God to make sure that they do.

“I always pray someone’s going to remember to come, and they never fail,” Zozos said. “And as many people come, there’s that many people that wish that they were here,” reported East Idaho News.

“If you notice, people are bringing their bags, they’re piling it in there,” Zozos said. “People buy more than they can eat.” Such is the lure of Greek food.

This year volunteers prepared as many as 7,000 pastries that were scoffed up. “This food is the best Greek food this side of the Mississippi,” Zozos said and Pat and Susan McCullough, who’ve been coming for years said they do because, “it’s about the only opportunity in Pocatello to get some culture, and the Greek dancing is fun and everyone’s in a good mood. We love coming here.”