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The World Record That Was Eaten By a Hungry Mob
Too delicious to resist
In 2008, spectators in Tehran, Iran gathered to witness the completion of a world record. In front of them lay, what was supposed to be, the world’s largest sandwich. It had been meticulously laid out in a local park in the predawn hours and was awaiting some final details before the measurements could be taken. As the sandwich grew in size, so did the interest from local people. In a city of nearly nine million people, the construction of a gigantic sandwich was going to draw hungry eyes.
The (alleged) measurements
So how big was the world record sandwich? The length of the sandwich was, allegedly, 1,500 meters. That is a whopping 1.5 kilometers of delicious food. The inside of the sandwich was, allegedly, to be stuffed with over a thousand pounds of chicken meat and a thousand pounds of ostrich meat. Now that is a sandwich.
I say allegedly, not because I do not trust the intrepid cooks of Iran who put this monster together. There were over a thousand people working on this thing before the unthinkable happened. I say allegedly because this sandwich was never officially recorded by Guinness.
People ate it first.
