Apparently spurred into action by the shame of having Spain claim the title for an Italian standard, pizza chefs in the town of Rende, in Calabria, worked 16 hours to produce a pizza 1.229km long—more than 3/4 of a mile. Not that we really knew there was such a title.
The pizza was baked in a feed-through oven similar to the kind used in commercial bread factories. It snaked through the town’s streets from one piazza to another. Its final length was verified by a panel of judges, including lawyers and a surveyor. They verified that it exceeded the 1.141km pie baked in Tomellaso, Spain in 2011.
More than national pride was involved; the stunt was a fundraiser by the town to buy a shuttle bus to allow the town’s elderly and disabled to get around. Oh, and what do you do with 3/4 of a mile of pizza? No problem. You invite 60,000 people to watch, help and take a bite.
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