Record Breaking Food
It’s amazing where a love for food can take you. Some people decide to open a bakery, others dedicate their lives to a career as a personal chef — but a select few take that love and manifest it into a world record.
Here at WhereOnThe.Net, we used our analytics to look at some of the world’s largest [insert a food that you hardly want to eat when it’s small here] to see just how Internet famous these record breakers have become.
World’s Largest Hotdog
Weighing in at 125.5 pounds, the world’s largest hotdog was cooked up at the Miami-Dade County fair on March 25, 2014 by Juicy Outlaw Grill. The meat cooked for three hours on a 100-foot mobile grill.
This dog went viral almost immediately after it was posted in March 2014. By July 2014, it reached over 140 of its 163 total online occurrences. To date, it has appeared on over 25 different websites including the New York Post and Metro.
World’s Largest Chicken Nugget
As part of Empire Kosher’s 75th anniversary, the company decided to mark the occasion by creating the world’s largest chicken nugget on October 29, 2013. After three hours, the completed nugget weighed 51.1 pounds and measured in at a little more than 3.25 feet by 2 feet.
Since first appearing online in November 2013, the nugget has reached over 75 unique pages on 30 websites, like Huffington Post and Trend Hunter.
World’s Largest Gingerbread House
In December 2013, the Traditions Club and St. Joseph Health System teamed up to build the world’s largest gingerbread house in Bryan, Texas. The structure stands at 60 feet by 42 feet with a height if 20 feet and took 1,800 pounds of butter, 7,200 eggs, 3,000 pounds of sugar, and 7,200 pounds of flour to construct. Oh, and the 2,500 pounds of candy on top.
This gingerbread mansion graced the web later that month and has now generated over 330 online hits. UOL Brazil and People are just two of the 63 websites that have hosted the image.
World’s Largest Gluten-Free Pizza
Chefs in Rome cooked up the world’s largest gluten-free pizza back in December 2012, which they allegedly named “Ottavia.” The giant pie weighed 50,000 pounds and the recipe called for 9.9 tons of gluten-free flour, five tons of tomato sauce and 4.4 tons of mozzarella cheese.
Acid Cow, Grist and over 65 other websites have featured Ottavia, generating a total of 128 unique pages since first appearing online.
World’s Largest Burger
Minnesota’s Black Bear Casino broke the record for the world’s largest burger back in September 2012 with their 2,014 pound masterpiece. The burger has a diameter of 10 feet and contains 60 pounds of bacon, 50 pounds of lettuce, 50 pounds of sliced onions, 40 pounds of pickles and 40 pounds of cheese. The patty itself took four hours to cook and had to be flipped using a crane.
Although it first appeared online in 2012, the burger actually didn’t reach 200 hits until December 2015. Now it has racked up 375 occurrences on nearly 120 websites around the world, including Daily Mail UK, Heute Austria and Perez Hilton.
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