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Greedy crowd hampers Iran's bid for world's largest ostrich sandwich

Remnants of the giant chicken and ostrich sandwichOn Wednesday 1,500 cooks in Iran unveiled an attempt to smash Italy's Guinness Record for the world's largest ostrich sandwich. The event took place in Tehran's Mellet Park. At 4,920 feet, the humongous hero, which contained 1,543 pounds each of ostrich and chicken meat, easily beats the Italian record of 4,521 feet, set last May.

There's only one problem though. The sandwich was devoured in minutes by a hungry crowd before Guinness officials had a chance to measure it. The organizers are hoping that Guinness will accept video footage to authenticate the record.

It's a shame that something which took two days to prepare was gobbled up in mere minutes. The hero contained a mixture of ostrich and chicken meat with mustard and spices. The gigantic sandwich made from gigantic flightless birds was the brainchild of Tehran's city council along and a group of ostrich farmers. Ostrich meat is renowned for its flavor and is high in protein and low in cholesterol. Iran is the world's third-largest ostrich breeder behind South Africa and China.

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Filed under: Food Oddities, Super Size Me, Ingredients
Tags: Guinnes World Record, Guinness, GuinnesWorldRecord, Iran, meat, middle east, oddities, ostrich, ostrich meat, Ostrich sandwich, OstrichMeat, OstrichSandwich, poultry, sandwich, sandwiches, super size me, Tehran

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Dr. Electro

10-19-2008 @1:01AM Dr. Electro said... Sometimes people just suck.
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Punisher2K

10-20-2008 @1:52PM Punisher2K said... A shame?? Really? Hungry people ate food and you both act like they are evil. Maybe Iran should but resources to feeding these people instead of setting stupid records.
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