Tall Food And Other Records

I recently learned that celebrity TV chefs Emeril Lagasse and Ty Pennington hold the world’s record for the tallest stack of pancakes at 2 feet 10 ¼ inches.

That got me looking into other amazing food records.

The tallest cake record is held by Nigerian cake maestro Tosan Jemide. His pastry creation was 108.27 feet tall. He says he made it to bring attention to Africa.
           
​The world champion ketchup chugger is a German who drank a bottle of ketchup in 32 seconds.
           
In the UK a fellow named Mat Hand ate 211 individual canned peas in 3 minutes using a cocktail toothpick.
           
You’ve got to wonder about these people. How much practice did Mat have to put in to get good at stabbing peas with a toothpick? And I wonder if there is another record holder for non-cocktail toothpick stabbing of peas.
           
There are a bunch of records that involve placing food in a single long line:
            Most hot dogs 1500;
            Most sandwiches…no mention of which kind…7,790;
            Most 12-inch pizzas 1,800;
            and my favorite…most M&M pretzels lined up in 30 seconds, which is 30.
           
I guess there must be some kind of civic pride in being among the crew that lines up 1,841 feet of doughnuts or 1,477 apple pies, but somebody had to make and assemble all that food and it seems like an awful lot of work for not much recognition.
           
Burgers are as American as apple pie, so it’s no surprise there’s a longest burger line record, set in Kuwait, of all places, at 1004 feet 10 inches. There were 2500 of them, with a bun, beef burger, cheese and ketchup. Hold the onions.   
           
A London restaurant claims the tallest burger at 5 feet 4 inches. The “Pie Scrapper” packs a whopping 30,000 calories.
           
John Clarkson and wife Corinne spent an hour-and-a-half assembling the structure on a metal stand to ensure the tower didn’t topple. The Pie Scrapper is filled with a series of meat patties each containing a different meal encased in burger meat. One can enjoy Spam, black pudding and sausage, steak and mushroom pie, spaghetti Bolognese and much more all in one tall burger. No mention of whether the tallest burger is covered in secret sauce.
           
I give John and Corinne kudos for creativity…no skinny pancake tower for them. They’ve got whole meals wrapped inside their burger patties. If you’re going to break a record, you might was well do it right.