Guinness World Records Declares 67-foot
World's Largest Gingerbread House
World Records
Gingerbread Artist Roger Pelcher and Guinness World Records Representative
Stuart Claxton Make the Official Measurement
Guinness World Records today announced that Mall of America is home to the World's Largest Gingerbread House. Following an official measurement of the more than 67-foot tall gingerbread creation, Guinness World Records recognized gingerbread artist Roger Pelcher, the world record holder for the largest gingerbread house. This achievement surpasses Pelcher's previous record of 57 feet.
Pelcher and his team of gingerbread experts logged an estimated 1,700 hours in nine days to create the 1,496-square-foot magical wonder. The house consists of 14,250 pounds of gingerbread, 4,750 pounds of icing and more than one ton of candy embellishments. It also features a magical gingerbread factory complete with animated elves.
KKE Architects and PCL Construction Services, Inc. served as major sponsors of the construction, donating time and resources to the completion of the World's Largest Gingerbread House, and the gingerbread and icing for the house were donated by Wilton Enterprises. Donated embellishments included 1,800 Hershey's chocolate bars, 1,200 feet of Twizzlers, 100 pounds of large-sized Tootsie Rolls, 300 pounds of large-sized DOTS, and 100 pounds each of Brach's Star Brites Mix, Holiday Mix, Crimp Ribbon, Christmas Spicettes and Christmas Nougats.
Mall of America is the nation's largest retail and entertainment complex. The 4.2-million-square-foot complex is home to more than 520 world-class shops; The Park at MOA, the nation's largest indoor family amusement park; Underwater Adventures, a 1.2-million-gallon walk-though aquarium; a 14- screen movie theater and more. The Mall opened in August of 1992 and is located in Bloomington, Minn., just minutes from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. For more information 
Booster Juice Sets New World Record
for the Largest Smoothie
Frank and Simon Voisin, Booster Juice business partners mix up the
World's Largest Smoothie after 3.5 hours of preparation
KITCHENER, ONTARIO - After 7 blenders, 3.5 hours of blending and over 195 gallons of smoothie, a Booster Juice store in Kitchener, Canada broke the current record for the World's Largest Smoothie. To break this record Booster Juice had to surpass the previous record of 333 litres or 88 gallons of delicious smoothie. City firefighters were on site to help in the attempt to enter the Guinness World Records by making the world's largest smoothie. Best of all, Booster Juice raised $1,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society by selling the world's largest smoothie in 24 oz cups after the record breaking event.
"As always we are excited to have set yet another benchmark in the Juice and Smoothie Bar industry and support such a great charitable organization," states Dale Wishewan, Booster Juice Co Founder and President of Booster Juice Canada. The event took place in the Sunrise Shopping Centre in Kitchener, Ontario.
Woman Eats 26
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Sonya Thomas, who is known as the 'Black Widow' on the competitive circuit, ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes
NEW YORK - On February 1, 2006, a 100-pound woman ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes at a New York restaurant, winning the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship. It was a close win. Her nearest competitor, Joey Chestnut, ate 25 1/2 sandwiches.
Sonya Thomas won $8,000 for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square but said she was disappointed in her performance. "I could have done better," she said, adding that she was aiming for 30 sandwiches.
Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., said she had to catch a train shortly after the contest to make her shift at a Burger King on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she is a manager.
She said she has a naturally big stomach capacity and heavily soaked her sandwiches in water to make them easier to swallow. She said to train she drinks large amounts of water to expand her stomach capacity and practices relaxing her throat. Thomas, whose normal weight is about 100 pounds, estimated she gained 10 pounds during Wednesday's contest.
On the eating contest circuit, Thomas is known as the "Black Widow," apparently because she has defeated so many larger men.
She holds numerous world eating records, including 46 dozen oysters in 10 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes, 48 chicken tacos in 11 minutes, 37 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and 56 hamburgers in 8 minutes.
World's Largest Wedding Cake: 15,032 Pounds
Mohegan Sun Casino Attempts to Shatter the World Record in Guinness Book of World Records
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, 18x24 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.
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.
World’s Largest Fish and Chips
Icelandic USA, Inc., set the Guinness Book of World Records “World’s Largest Fish and Chips Serving” of 77.75 pounds - 34.21 pounds for the Cod Fillet (battered and fried) and 43.54 lbs of chips. (L-R) President and CEO of Icelandic USA Magnus Gustafsson, Black Rose owner Michael Glynn, Icelandic USA Director of Technical Services Ronald Sasiela, and Iceland Minister of Fisheries Arni M. Mathiesen.
Vienna Beef Makes World's Longest Hot Dog: 16 Feet, 1 Inch
To celebrate National Hot Dog Month and the Fourth of July, the Chicago-based Vienna Beef assembled the world's longest hot dog, measuring 16 feet, 1 inch and topping the previous record of 15 feet, 3 inches recorded in Pennsylvania in 2001. The giant feat took place near Buckingham Fountain during the annual Taste of Chicago food festival.
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.
World's Record Chocolate Heart
Online dating site 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.
Longest Pizza
A Chinese chef prepares a 20-metre pizza in Shanghai, said to be the longest pizza, as part of hotel promotion to attract more guests.
Cadbury Adams and Bubblicious Help Ozzie Smith Set World Record
Baseball legend Ozzie Smith helps set World Record for "most bubbles ever blown at one time".
Hundreds of Little League players and fans joined Major League Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith (center) to set the world record for the most bubble gum bubbles blown at one time.
Over 100 fans and 300 pieces of Bubblicious gum made the record possible.
World's Biggest Cookie to Fund American Folk Art Museum
Cookie Will Be Over 100 Feet In Diameter and Contain 6,000 Pounds of Chocolate Chips
Immaculate Baking Company, known for making great-tasting cookies with imaginative flavors and funky packaging, has announced the imminent creation of the world's biggest cookie. The all-natural chocolate-chip cookie will be larger than a basketball court, measuring over 100 feet in diameter. It will be baked on May 17, 2003, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, at the future site of the Folk Art Museum next to Immaculate Baking Company's cookie factory. The event will benefit the Folk Artist's Foundation (FAF) and construction of its Folk Art Museum.
There's no question that this cookie will taste great," says Scott Blackwell, Immaculate Baking Co.'s president and CEO. "But what's more important is that it
will accomplish two critical missions: It will bring the world record back to the US - which should be the case when it comes to chocolate-chip cookies - and it will raise the initial funds to create the Folk Art Museum."
Blackwell, whose personal collection of over 600 works of folk art will form the museum's initial collection, has been an advocate for folk art and folk artists for over
a decade. Immaculate Baking Company features folk art on its award-winning packaging and maintains strong relationships with numerous folk artists regionally
and nationally.
Marshall Field's Sets Record for Largest Box of Chocolates
The history-making 15' x 7' x 2' Frango box weighs 3,226 pounds and is on display at Chicago's Field Museum
Marshall Field's officially shattered the Guinness World Record for the Largest Box of Chocolates today at The Field Museum in Chicago. The oversized Frango Win A Mint box contained 2,002 one-pound boxes of Frango Mint chocolates.
The Frango box was weighed on a commercial scale and authenticated by Stuart Claxton, a Guinness World Records researcher; Dennis O'Brien, a CPA and partner at Pasquesi Sheppard in Chicago; and Francis Patch, Director of Food Protection at the Chicago Department of Health. With the help of The Field Museum, currently running the Chocolate exhibition, Marshall Field's will have a chance to be featured in the Guinness Book of World Records.
"On behalf of Guinness World Records, I am pleased to announce that Marshall Field's 2,002 pound Frango Win A Mint chocolate box has shattered the record for the World's Largest Box of Chocolates," says Stuart Claxton, Guinness World Records researcher. (Master Foods Middle East for the Dubai Shopping Festival set the prior world record, of 1,888 pounds, in March 2001.)
Carvel Breaks Guinness World Record for Largest Ice Cream Scoop Pyramid
New Record Shatters Previous By 794 Scoops
Carvel Corporation, the nation's first retail ice cream chain, today broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ice cream pyramid, live on the CBS Early Show. Built in 58 minutes, the pyramid was comprised of 3,894 scoops of Carvel's creamy vanilla ice cream, totaling 22 layers and weighing in at 1,005 pounds. 278 gallons of ice cream were used to build the 53 inches tall pyramid. The 3,894 scoops totaled 778,800 calories, 38,940 fat grams, and exceeded the recommended daily calcium allowance by 58,305%. The towering structure was built with the help of 28 Carvel employees alternating between the jobs of scooper, placer and runner.
"Setting the new world record was an incredible opportunity for us to share the Carvel experience," said Steve Romaniello, president of Carvel. "Thanks to our dedicated employees and franchisees, our creamy, crunchy product has been an industry favorite for more than 68 years."
The last scoop to set the new world record was placed by Boca Raton franchisee Chuck Keller, son of longtime Carvel employee Stewart Keller who recently passed away.
Jolly Rancher Proves It's
the 'King of Pops' with Guinness World Record Largest Lollipop
'World's Largest Lollipop' Unwrapped Along
With New Jolly Rancher Fruit Chew Lollipop
at Taste of Chicago
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."
WORLD'S FASTEST PIZZA MAKER
Domino's Pizza store manager Rene DeGuia, Palm Springs, Calif., made 14 perfect pizzas in 2 minutes and 34 seconds to win the World's Fastest Pizza Maker title and $5,000 in Las Vegas. DeGuia set a new world record, averaging 11 seconds per pie. Seventeen competitors from around the world were judged on speed and quality pizza making.
WORLD'S LARGEST MILKSHAKE
The Comfort Diners' Owner Ira Freehof beat the heat and the Guinness Book of World Records when -- in conjunction with Parmalat USA & American Dairy Association -- he set a new record for the WORLD'S LARGEST MILKSHAKE, a 6,000 gallon classic Black & White Shake (the equivalent of 50,000 shakes!), which surpassed the old Guinness record of 4,603.24 gallons.
Jack in the Box Sells 315,360,000 Tacos Per Year
America's passion for Mexican fast-food is leading to a boom in taco sales. Even traditional burgers and fries chains are adding taco fare to their menu boards. Here, workers at a food manufacturing plant in Hutchinson, Kan., inspect and pack tacos destined for Jack in the Box® restaurants, the only major fast-food hamburger chain offering tacos at all its restaurants. Jack in the Box officials say their customers consume 600 tacos every minute, or 315,360,000 tacos a year. 
World’s Largest
Bowl of Dip
In celebration of collegiate football's season finale, members of Friendship Dairies’ Sour Cream to the Extreme Team put final touches on The World’s Largest Bowl of Dip to establish a new Guinness World Record.
The salsa-flavored tailgating treat included 2,314.6 pounds of sour cream, tomatoes, onions, bell pepper, jalapeno and cilantro. Armchair epicureans note: the culinary concoction equaled 32,000 servings (with no double dipping).
The previous world record, an 1,807-pound bowl of guacamole, was established March 1999 in Queensland, Australia. (PRNewsFoto)
Crazy about Hostess
Cup Cakes
Suzanne Rutland enjoys one of the four Hostess Cup Cakes that she eats daily. During her lifetime, she estimates that she has eaten more than 50,000 Cup Cakes. "Every morning I eat two Hostess Cup Cakes for breakfast with a multivitamin," said Rutland. "I'll have a light lunch and another Cup Cake for an afternoon snack. I eat dinner, but always save room for dessert. I like to end each day with a Cup Cake."
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