Bird brained
After a tense weekend we are still on tender-hooks as we await confirmation of Iran's latest world record attempt. Roy Castle eat your heart out: this bid to grace the pages of Guinness was for the world's biggest ostrich sandwich made by 1,500 people over two days at a Tehran food fair. Unfortunately, onlookers started munching on the 1,500m long snack before the record could be confirmed, chomping through 1,000kg of ostrich meat in a matter of minutes. Organisers proved unflappable, claiming they have video evidence of the event (you can see some here), but we've had our heads in the sand ever since.
Not a fan of physical exertion I can see the appeal of a record earned by making the biggest possible version of a tasty snack. It beats wing walking, bouncing up the Empire State Building on a pogo stick, or the myriad other difficult and dangerous spectacles Record Breakers was famed for. However, a giant ostrich sandwich does seem a little specialised to earn a footnote in history. Will anyone ever get round to challenging the record? Like the bird itself, this attempt just doesn't fly.
Moving swiftly on... I'm going to devote some time to the creation of the biggest ever Mint Aero. Who's with me? Or why not suggest your own weird and wonderful record breaker?
- Published: 20 October 2008
I think your bid would suffer the same fate as the Iranians -- Fi would be off with your unguarded chocolate in seconds!
Talking of extra-large versions of loved snacks, here's one I (didn't really) make earlier: http://pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=350
I was reading about this "attempt" in the paper on Saturday and it turned out they were unsure if they succeeded as a hungry mob decended on it and scoffed the lot before they could properly measure it : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/17/iran-world-record-sandwich