Posts with tag Guinness World Record
Posted Dec 14th 2006 8:05PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Dessert, Food Oddities, Spirit of Christmas, America, Europe, Sugar, Super Size Me
With all the coverage we here at Slashfood have been giving
gingerbread men and
gingerbread houses I thought it might be fun to search the web for
Guinness World Records involving the favorite holiday flavor.
Without doubt, the most impressive gingerbread record this year is
Roger Pelcher's gingerbread house. The house - which was built at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. - stands just shy of 64 feet. Pelcher beat his previous record of 57 feet.
It took him and his team nine days to build the 1,496-square-foot ginger-scented, candy-laden mansion. Given its size and the fact that it includes a gingerbread factory complete with animated elves, I think it's fair to call it a mansion. The gargantuan confection contains 14,250 pounds of gingerbread, 4,750 pounds of icing and more than a ton of candy decorations. Hansel and Gretel eat your heart out.
I'm not sure why people like to make gingerbread creations of outlandish proportions in Minnessota, but they do. From Rochester comes the world's largest gingerbread man. The big guy weighs in at 466 pounds and was baked by the Gingerbread House Bakery. The bakery plans to bring it to the Mall of America to join Pelcher's gingerbread palace.Continue reading Mmm ... Guinness gingerbread records
Posted Oct 15th 2006 4:05PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Beef, Asia, Food Oddities, Spices, Super Size Me
The recent arrival of temperatures in the 50s on the East Coast makes me wish I was in China Friday night partaking in a gargantuan
hotpot feast that has been named the world's largest ever.
The gigantic hotpot was served up in southwest China's Chingqing, birthplace of the hot and spicy stockpot of mutton, beef and vegetables. The cauldron, which measured almost 30 feet across, held a ying-yang of broth, one side a fierce orange-red color due to the spices. The other side, contained what I assume to have been cool white broth, that was sweeter and more aromatic.
Sixty-four restaurants helped serve up the humongous hotpot that served some 100,000 diners and set a new Guinness World Record. The meal, which included five meats and five vegetables, started at 7 p.m. and continued until after midnight. What I want to know is whether they slurped up the broth afterwards! [via
Spluch]
Posted Aug 14th 2006 1:03PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Beef, Cheese, South Asia, Food Oddities, Grilling, Super Size Me
Ever had a hankering to order up a 78.5-pound hamburger with 12 hours notice? Now you can thanks to
Bob's BBQ & Grill. This Texas 'cue joint recently cooked up what it calls the Texas Belt buster in a bid to unseat Fuddruckers Guinness World record for the largest burger.
Bob's grilled the gargantuan ground beef sandwich in honor of the King of Thailand's 60th year accession to the throne. And just why is a Texas BBQ celebrating a Thai holiday? Because the restaurant is located in Pattaya, Thailand. It was founded by Bob Schindler, a former comepetive barbecuer from Houston.
Once it gets certified, the Texas Belt Buster will hold the record. Fuddrucker's burger weighed in at a paltry 29.9 pounds. The Texas Belt Buster used 55 pounds of ground beef and took more than six hours to grill up. It comes topped with two large heads of lettuce, 35 slices of cheese and four jalapeños, among other things.
For a mere 15,500 baht ($400) you can try to take down this monstrosity. I wonder if
Takeru Kobayashi has heard of this megaburger yet.
Posted Apr 8th 2006 4:15PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Snacks, Dessert, Grains, Fruit, Candy, Food Oddities, Islands, Sugar, Super Size Me
What do you get when you combine 2,000 coconuts, 1.5 tons of brown sugar and half a ton of ground glutinous rice? The
world's largest
calamay.The 2.5-ton
sticky rice treat was recently unveiled in
Candon
City in the Philippines. It's the country's effort to topple the Guinness World Record for the largest sticky rice
cake, which is currently held by the city of Niigata, Japan. To give some idea of the scale of this sugary treat
consider that in an average day a calamay vendor uses some 55 pounds of glutinous rice. Oh, in case you're wondering,
the one pictured above is
not the Guinness contender.
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