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This is just so stupid on so many levels.
These cooks in Iran decide to get in the Guinness Book of Records by making the “world’s longest sandwich,” see. Nearly a mile long, with three Guinness representatives there.
Now, if you look at the photos, it’s NOT one continuous sandwich, it looks like a whole bunch of separate sandwiches. So it’s like putting a hundred men head-to-toe on the ground and claiming to have the world’s tallest man.
But then it gets dumber. They finish making their yummy ostrich sandwich, they’re about to officially measure it, and… It’s gone. The crowd ate it. The whole thing.
Wait! Come back, Guinness dudes! Is there a world record for the longest piece of aluminum foil with nothing on it?
above: Iranian man eats a slice of a 1,500-meter-long sandwich in Tehran, October 17, 2008.
below: Iranian cook prepares the sandwich.
REUTERS photos by Morteza Nikoubazl
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Crowd? I don’t think so.
I would like to know Jarod’s whereabouts on October 17th!
Holy hoagie heroes! You’re actually not kidding!
In Iran, world’s longest sandwich eats you!
They were pretty serious about the world’s largest collection of sandwiches! I can’t believe they devoured it in minutes. In America, we’d have had that bad boy gone in 15 seconds!
Gimme ostrich on 5 with a side of goat nose — hold the mayo.
It was pork, not Ostrich.
No world record for most Iranians fed in one day?
I would lose all respect for Guinness records if they let this ‘collection of sandwiches’ fly. Nice try, but sorry, that’s not how it works.
Cluck and spit is not my kind of sandwich. Ostrich? Yuk!
Oddly enough, this was on triple J news this morning, an Australian radio station. Apparently, it was uncontrollable. They couldn’t stop people from just rushing at it. It must have been one damn fine sandwich. Ostrich probably just tastes like chicken anyway.
Ostrich tastes more like beef! Commonly eaten in Europe rather than beef.
I find it hard to believe that pork was eaten in Iran, Roscoe. Is your first name Oscar, by any chance? I always liked the sound of “Oscar Roscoe.”
Regarding taste, lest we forget, let us remember how Samuel Johnson defined oats in his dictionary: “That grain fed to the horses in England, and to the people in Scotland.” Someday, we well may have ostrich at a Subway. It can’t be any worse than some of the things I had to eat growing up on a farm in a German family! Or living in the South. Goat nose and okra, anyone?
How could you make a 1.5km loaf of bread? Perhaps they could have cut the first loaf top in half and placed it – then they would have looked like a brick wall rather than a bunch of foot-longs end on end. Either way, crowd control didn’t seem to be effective!
In an attempt to capitalize on the media hype, Subway contacted Guinness to apply for the “Best Deal Ever” entry– Buy one 4500-foot-long sub, get the second free! Bariatric surgery not included.
A Horrible Hoagie Hoax had been perpetrated upon the Hordes of the Hungry!