"GuinnessWorldRecords" news and stories

Here at Slashfood we love to discover outsized food items that garner Guinness records and, of course, we love to snack. So I was glad to learn that  Pringles now has a way for snackers to keep up with the latest records.

In a cross-promotion with the 2006 edition of Guinness World Records Pringles has come up with salty snacks featuring questions such as "The lightest 'normal' or non-atrophied brain on record weighed how much?" (answer: 1 lb. 8 oz.).  Lest I forget, these brain teasers are printed on the chips in blue dye. Apparently placing text on salty snacks is old news for Pringles they've been doing it for two years.

Either I haven't been down the snack food aisle in a while, or I took commercial food with messages and/or logos off my radar after eating my first, and last, McGriddle. There's even an area on the Pringles  web site asking for suggested messages. I'd happily pop until I couldn't stop if they released a pack with chips reading "Impeach Bush."

[thanks to Taquitos for the image and tip]

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The gigantic 76-pound jackfruit grown on Hawaii's Big Island two years ago now has some company. Joining it in Guinness World Records is the  world's heaviest mango – a whopping five pounds, seven ounces – grown in Kailua, Kona.

Colleen Porter, who has a small mango and avocado orchard, tended the freakish fruit for two months, even covering it with plastic bag to keep birds from eating it. Before she harvested it she almost gave up growing altogether. I know it's a long shot, but given Hawaii's track record so far, I'm holding out for the world's largest Kona coffee bean.

[image: The Honolulu Advertiser]

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