Well, actually, the nearly one-ton, 847kg kebab technically didn’t set the world’s record for a giant döner, but half of it did.
A judge from the Rekord-Institut für Deutschland ruled that because the accompanying flatbread was not a single piece, it couldn’t be an official record. The team then split it, creating two 423.5kg entries, each 10kg bigger than the previous record, held by Australians.
The team, working at the Mall of Berlin, used all regular ingredients—the meat, lettuce, and red and white cabbage that usually go into smaller versions of Berlin’s favorite (but not really German) fast food, with one exception: they used herb sauce rather than the usual garlic for fear that so much garlic in one place might be “offensive in terms of smell.”
After the weigh-in, the kebab was cut and distributed among a lucky crowd of around 400 spectators.
