Grabbing a Pizza the Record Books

How’s this for a "pizza" the action? Some 100 volunteers at the Bucharest Food Festival Monday set the record for the world’s longest pizza chain: 2,200 pizzas in 14 rows measuring 1,630 feet.

The ingredients, according to the World Records Academy: 600 kilos of pizza flour, 400 kilos of mozzarella, 200 kilos of tomato sauce, 15 liters of olive oil and three kilos of yeast. Stir in volunteers to spend the day making the pizzas and laying them out on tables – and shooing away hungry passersby. Also part of the successful recipe: Donating 90 percent of the pizza to child care centers and homes for the elderly. (The audience chowed the other 10 percent.)

The previous pizza record: Tamburino Restaurant, in Yeovil, England, which in April lined up 2,129 pizzas measuring 1,563 feet and 11 inches.

Pizza wasn’t Bucharest’s only record-breaking-recipe, though. The festival also set the record for the largest tripe soup ever: 1,058 liters, or approximately 5,000 bowls of soup. (Click here to watch a video of it.) Perhaps not surprisingly, there doesn’t appear to be a previous record-holder. Among the ingredients: 420 kilos of beef trip (that’s almost 1,000 pounds!), 100 liters of sour cream, 1,400 eggs, and 10 kilograms of garlic.

Bet that ought to keep those Transylvanian vampires away!

Photo courtesy SeetYing via Flickr.