Junk Food World Records
1. World’s Record Chocolate Heart:
The famous online dating website, Match.com, unveiled a 7-metric-ton chocolate heart in Madrid on Friday, Feb. 13, 2004 for Valentine’s Day, breaking the Guinness World Record for largest chocolate heart structure by weight. Designed by artist Lluis Morera, the chocolate heart was produced by Chocovic, the largest chocolate producer in Spain. This is the second Guinness World Record for Match.com, which holds the current record for world’s largest online dating site.
2. Carvel Builds World’s Largest Ice Cream Cake:
Carvel builds the world’s largest ice cream cake in New York City’s Union Square Park in celebration of its 70th birthday. At 12,096 pounds the cake broke all previous Guinness World records. Fudgie the Whale, one of Carvel’s mascots, was on hand to help celebrate and pass out ice cream to the eager and hungry onlookers. Ice cream was donated to City Harvest afterwards.
3. World’s Largest Burger
World’s Largest Burger Weighs Nine Pounds! No one has ever finished this $23.95 whopper. Where’s the beef? As you can see, it’s at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Denny’s is the home of the world’s largest hamburger: a NINE POUND meat monster!
This humongous burger, listed on the pub’s menu as Ye Olde 96er, sells for $23.95 and contains a full six pounds of meat plus three pounds of trimmings: two whole tomatoes, a half-head of lettuce, twelve slices of American cheese, a full cup of peppers, two whole onions, and “a river of mayonnaise,ketchup, and mustard” according to pub owner Dennis Liegey.
Not that hungry? Denny’s offers two- and three-pound burgers for those of us with slightly smaller appetites. Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub is located at 1423 Dorey St., Clearfield, Pennsylvania. For more information, call (814) 765-7190 or visit their web site at www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com
4. World’s Largest Wedding Cake:
15,032 Pounds: Today, at the New England Bridal Showcase, Mohegan Sun unveiled what it hopes will be the world’s largest wedding cake. Measuring 17-feet tall and weighing 15,032 pounds, the seven-tiered cake is almost three-times the weight of the current record in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s largest wedding cake.
The Mohegan Sun wedding cake is vanilla flavored and decorated with bows and hearts. Ingredients include: 10,000 pounds of pound cake batter and 4,810 pounds of creamy frosting with a taste of vanilla and almond. Comparatively speaking, the cake weighs more than five Volkswagen Beetles and can feed up to 59,000 people.
Chef Lynn Mansel, Mohegan Sun’s Executive Pastry Chef and resident “Michelangelo of batters and buttercream,” began creating the cake on Sunday, February 1st in the Uncas Ballroom. Along with his team of 57 chefs and pastry artisans, Chef Mansel baked 700, 18×24 inch vanilla sheet cakes. Then, using frosting as cement, they created 200, five- and six-layered bricks, which were put together to form the tiers of the wedding cake. Steel discs were used as cake separators and two fork-lifts helped raise each tier as the wedding cake took shape.
The current record in the Guiness Book of World Records is 5,334-pounds, and was unveiled at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2003. The five-tiered cake, which measured 22-feet tall, celebrated the wedding of the animated characters Shrek and Fiona — who were the main characters in the original Shrek movie — and the opening of the new Shrek 4-D ride at Universal Studios.
5. Jolly Rancher: World’s Largest Lollipop:
Jolly Rancher has unveiled the World’s Largest Lollipop, certified by Guinness World Records, weighing in at a whopping 4,016 pounds and measures 62.8 inches in diameter (over 5 feet square) and 18.9 inches thick. The Jolly Rancher lollipop, an exact replica of the regular-sized Jolly Rancher cherry lollipop, breaks the previous record by over 1,000 pounds.
Jolly Rancher, a division of Hershey Foods Corporation, created the world’s largest lollipop to celebrate the launch of Jolly Rancher’s latest pop creation, Jolly Rancher Fruit Chew Lollipops — the only lollipops that deliver the big, bold flavors of Jolly Rancher with a chewy center.
“Guinness World Records is pleased to certify that Hershey holds the record for the world’s largest lollipop,” said Stuart Claxton, Research Manager, Guinness World Records. “This was a difficult record to break and is a great achievement by the Hershey team.”
Jolly Rancher Fruit Chew Lollipops feature the unique square, flat lollipop shape — in the bold flavors of watermelon, green apple, cherry and grape. The lollipops are available now in 10 oz. and 6.2 oz. assorted bags and individually.
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