I've never given much thought as to whether South Africans celebrate Thanksgiving. However, when I read that a team of bakers created what they're calling the the world's largest pumpkin pie last weekend, I'm beginning to think folks in Pretoria might just have their own version Thanksgiving.The 1.15 ton treat took two days to make and bake and measured some 3 feet deep. It's worth noting that the pie's other dimensions were 28 feet long and 7 feet wide. While I'm all for the South Africans trying to break a record set by a group of U.S. farmers two years ago (pictured), someone needs to tell the South Africans that pies are round. If the dimensions I read are not a typo, the mammoth pumpkin pastry qualifies as a loaf with a crust, but not a pie. A ton of the orange gourd was used to make the "pie." As of press time, there's been no reports of how many pounds of Cool Whip were used to top the purported pie.
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10-18-2007 @ 1:46PM
Adriane said...
...a TON of pumpkin? Why didn't they instead donate that food to the tens of thousands of starving people throughout Africa? Heck, even to just their neighbors (Botswana).
Not saying America is much better, but come on...
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10-21-2007 @ 12:25AM
Hannes Ingwersen said...
With all due respect, I really don't think that "someone" needs or should step around the world and "tell" other people how to do things "right". Only because in the United States pies are preferably round, that does not mean it shouldn't be done differently elsewhere..
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10-21-2007 @ 7:59PM
NBGPG said...
I agree with writer Joe DiStefano with his comment about pies being round, and so do the people at Guiness Book of World Records. It states clearly in the rules and regulations, that when trying to break a food category record, that the attempt be a larger scaled up version of an actual item. Pies are round, cakes are round, loaves are square. Looks like the folks in Ohio are safe.......for now.
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