That's a Big Meatball
A New Hampshire restaurant cooked up a 222.5 lb meatball, breaking the previous world record by 25 lbs.Department of Mashups: The Burger King Windows 7 Whopper
Engadget points to this fascinating development in the Japanese fast food marketplace: it's gastrogigantism meets computer operating software.
Available for just one week, Burger King's "Windows 7 Whopper" is comprised of a stack of seven beef patties on a hamburger bun, measuring five inches in height overall.
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Big Cheese: Mozzarella Braid Breaks Guiness Record
Cheesemakers in the town of Sala Consilina, just outside Naples, broke their own Guiness World Record for the world's largest braid of mozzarella cheese. A team of 40 pulled and twisted a braid of mozzarella extending 78.8 meters in length. This was the third world record in three years for Sala Consilina's mozzarella makers.
[Via @ColdMud]
Image: salagustando.com
What's Big in Food: Meatballs, Gummy Bears, and Challah
You may have heard of the 200-pound meatball and the giant gummy bear, but you probably didn't know about the 9-foot long challah. The leftovers must have set a record for the world's thickest French toast.
Big Burger
Unveiled in Japan, a 300-pounder claims the title for the world's biggest burger. Via coldmud.
The Big Cheese
A one-ton wheel of cheese -- believed to be the largest in the world -- was sampled at a cheese festival in the town of Arzúa, Galicia. Eight thousand liters of milk went into the making of the cheese.
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