World's Longest Enchilada

World's longest enchilada measures in at 230ft They must have big appetites down Mexico way - the world record-loving nation has created a colossal enchilada.



The good people of Iztapalapa cooked up a 230ft-long, almost one and a half-ton enchilada which is now an official Guinness record.



The massive concoction was made of corn tortillas, white onions, green tomatoes, serrano chillis, avocado, cheese, cream and a sea of salsas.



Mexico City tourism secretary Alejandro Rojas: 'With this Guinness record we are showing the world that Iztapalapa is a high-level tourist destination.'



Mexico has grabbed a number of world records recently, including the largest number of people dancing Michael Jackson's Thriller and most people kissing simultaneously.

Largest Omelette | Omelette Recipe

world's largest omelette : Turkish chefs set a new world record for the world’s largest omelette Recipes during World Egg Day events in capital of Ankara.

How To Make Omelette was cooked in a giant fryer which is 10 metres in diameter. During the event, 65 cooks whisked 110,010 eggs to cook the omelette of 4,400 kg. It took 2.5 hours to cook it.

Carim Valerio of the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that it was the biggest omelette of the world.

The record breaking omelette has been brought to Ankara to celebrate World Egg Day 2010 and promote eggs as a healthy, affordable and easy to prepare food staple.

The Turkish Egg Producers Association staged the event to promote eggs as a healthy primary food source. Said the association's president, Derya Pala: "After seeing our record-breaking omelet we hope that more people will be encouraged to make eggs a greater part of their diet."

No word on whether bystanders' composite cholesterol level spiked during the cook-off, but witnesses did report a low, gutteral groan from the world's vegans.

The former record for the World's Largest Omelet, held by cooks in Cape Town, was a kid meal-friendly 3.625 tons.

On the NASDAQ, shares of Turkish bacon closed high following a sharp rise in demand.









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Human Mattress Dominoes

king koil Mattress Dominoes Springs were in the air yesterday when the world record for human mattress dominoes was broken.

The attempt was made by Palantine Beds, in Newcastle, and saw 400 mattresses toppled - beating the current world record set by a team in America.

After four months of planning, the team behind the event were last night celebrating in style.

The firm's sales and marketing manager Andrew Waters, is now awaiting official confirmation from the Guinness Book if World Records that his team are now the current world record holders in human mattress dominoes.

Mr Waters said: 'We didn't have the turnout we were hoping for so we had to improvise.

Volunteers in Newcastle breaking the World Record for human mattress dominoes when they toppled 400 mattresses in succession

The event took place at the spacious Newcaslte Furniture Service warehouse in Newburn Riverside, where excited participants whooped as they passed the current record

'The first two rows that toppled then had to pick their mattresses up and run around and join the end. But it actually made the whole thing more exciting to be honest.

'It was a great morning. I had a lump in my throat at the end of it.'

Until two weeks ago, the world record as held by a group in China, who toppled 256 mattresses in May this year.

Then a team in New York toppled 380 mattresses, making the record harder to beat.

But yesterday's attempt saw 400 mattresses fall, after colleagues from Palantine Beds, owned by Newcastle City Council, Your Homes in Newcastle (YHN), and other volunteers, took three minutes and 41 seconds to set a new record.

The event took place at the spacious Newcaslte Furniture Service warehouse in Newburn Riverside, Newcastle, where excited participants whooped as they passed the current record.

The Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Coun Brenda Hindmarsh, started the event, which involved hundreds of Geordies and their mattresses.

Mr Waters added: 'We followed their rules to the letter so there is no reason why we shouldn't have the record. It's what we set out to do.

'It was a lovely atmosphere and it just wouldn't have been possible without all of the volunteers who gave up their time on Saturday morning to take part.

'When we originally set out to do this it was going t be 301 mattresses, but a few weeks ago America did 380.

'So we upped ours. We had to extra staff working overtime to makae extra mattresses and they have all been absolutely fantastic.

'It was just a daft idea that snowballed, but it couldn't have been done without everybody who has taken part.'

World's Largest Pot of Bortsch Soup Recipe

A Russian chef bortsch recipes in a huge-sized pot during an international agricultural exhibition on the outskirts of Kiev, capital of Ukraine, on Oct. 2, 2010. By putting 250 kilograms of cabbages, 90 kilograms of onions, 80 kilograms of carrots, 140 kilograms of beans and 27 kilograms of salt into a 5,000-liter soup pot, chefs finally created 4,000 liters of "borscht", setting a new world record.

[borscht] ingredient It usually contains beet, which gives it a strong red color. Other typical additional ingredients, depending on preparation, Non vegetarian are vegetarian (beans, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, onions or tomatoes), the mushrooms and meat (chicken, pork or beef).

It is commonly accepted that the borscht is originally from Ukraine, but part of the local culinary heritage of many countries of eastern and central Europe. The soup is called barščiai in Lithuania, barszcz in Poland, borscht (Борщ) in Russia and Ukraine and bors in Romania.

There are two kinds of barszcz : white (Bialy) and red (Czerwony); it is prepared from sugar beet and is one of twelve traditional dishes from the table on Christmas Eve Polish.

Dodgeball Games Set World Record

The world's biggest Dodgeball Games Team has taken place in the California with more than 1,700 students hurling rubber balls at each other.

well-known form of team sport with modified rules that is often played in physical education classes and has been featured in a movie

Students came up with the idea for the game because they wanted to Organise a mass-participation event and thought they may as well break a Guinness record while they were at it.

After looking at the record books, the student from the University of California decided the dodgeball record - which stood at just 1,198 - was easily beatable.

For anyone who wasn't subjected to ritual humiliation by dodgeball, the aim of the game is to hit all the members of the opposing team by throwing the ball at them.



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Human Powered Aircraft

Todd Reichert has achieved what's believed to be an aviation first. The University of Toronto PhD candidate built a human-powered aircraft with flapping wings which he hopes has set a world record.

Leonardo da Vinci, of Florence, dreamt of doing it. Todd Reichert, of the University of Toronto, actually did.

On Wednesday, Reichert, a PhD student at the U of T Institute for Aerospace Studies, announced he had completed the first continuous flight of a human-powered aircraft with birdlike flapping wings, a device known as an ornithopter.

The creation of a craft that would allow humans to fly like birds has captured the imagination of inventors for centuries, but few working models have been built. Da Vinci drew up sketches for a flying machine in 1485, but never made one.

“Some people just dream about flying, at night in their dreams. I do,” said David Greatrix, a professor of aerospace engineering at Ryerson University. “Even though we have flying airplanes, it’s not the same.”

Reichert’s ornithopter flight, which lasted 19.3 seconds and covered 145 metres, is the first entirely powered by a human being. “This is the last first in aviation, and in many ways the most significant one,” said James DeLaurier, who oversaw the project.

“It was unreal,” Reichert, 28, said in an interview.

The flying craft, named the Snowbird, weighs just under 43 kilograms and has a wing span of 32 metres, comparable to a Boeing 737, though its weight amounts to approximately that of the pillows onboard a commercial jet. The Snowbird is made of carbon fibre, foam and balsa wood.

It took Reichert and another graduate student, Cameron Robertson, over four years to make the craft, and cost $200,000.

DeLaurier, a retired Institute for Aerospace Studies professor who is one of the world’s leading experts on ornithopters, devoted his career to birdlike flight. In 2006, he built and flew a motorized ornithopter called the Flapper, another aviation first. But a purely human-powered craft was his life’s ambition.

“(Reichert’s) ornithopter has since landed, but I’m still hovering a couple feet off the ground. It was a moment that’s difficult to describe,” DeLaurier said.

Over the summer, Reichert lost eight kilograms, went on a special diet and trained daily, especially his leg muscles.

He took 65 test runs before the Aug. 2 flight date in Tottenham, Ont. “I didn’t sleep the night before the flight,” Reichert said. “My mind was just racing.”

A representative from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the world body governing aeronautical records, was present to witness the event.

A tow line tugged the craft into the air and then released it, and the Snowbird was off to its history-making flight. “It was such a neat feeling . . . you kept pushing and it kept maintaining altitude,” Reichert said. “All of a sudden, it clicked and we were able to stay up there.”

The Snowbird works by pumping a set of pedals attached to pulleys and lines that bring down the wings in an elegant flapping motion, a feat that requires both engineering and physical prowess.

“He combined brilliance with athleticism,” DeLaurier said. Part of the team’s goal was to promote sustainable and efficient transportation.

Greatrix said he was impressed with the team. “I’ll give them full marks for persistence. It’s all very promising from an aerospace engineering viewpoint,” he said.

Reichert’s mother, Majel Vye, was thrilled. “This is awesome, he worked so so hard for this,” she said.

The team is in talks with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa to donate the Snowbird for display.







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Man Seeks World Rope-Sleeping Record

A Chinese man who claims he can sleep on a rope tied between two trees is hoping to get into the Guinness Books of Records.

Gao Yang, 37, says it took him nearly a quarter of a century to master the skill but he can now sleep on the rope for seven hours.

Gao, of Anshan, northeastern China's Liaoning Province, says he practices on a 10ft high rope in his local park every morning.

He told NEN News: "I met a master when I was 12, and he taught me some tips. It took me nearly 24 years to acquire the skill.

"It's nearly impossible for ordinary people to do this. It needs the perfect coordination of body muscles and balancing skills.

"I am finally ready to contact Guinness in the coming days and am confident of being able to set a world record."

Pumpkin Festival

Pumpkin Festival - Autumn madness as world's largest Pumpkin paddling Race festival Contest begins

A German festival dedicated to celebrating all things pumpkiny has kicked off with a Traditonal race - with competitors paddling giant, hollowed-out pumpkins across a lake

The raditional pumpkin race takes place as part of the Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival - which every year works to spread the joy of the world of pumpkins, in order to mark the start of the German pumpkin season.

The contestants in the pumpkin race have to paddle the huge, hollowed-out pumpkin across Ludwigsburg Castle lake - in front of the imposing backdrop and stately architecture of the former royal palace

The enormous pumpkins can weigh over 200lb (90kg) before having their tops cut off and their flesh scooped out to turn them into functioning boats.

The pumpkin racing isn't the only element that makes up the pumpkin festival - pumpkin growers also compete in a more traditional 'grow the largest pumpkin' contest, which this year festival-goers have had the chance to look at a giant statue of a seahorse made out of pumpkins.

Much of the fruit – and yes they are indeed fruit, botanically-speaking – weighed in at over 200lb before having all their flesh scooped out so that racers can fit inside.

But the festival also sees a more traditional contest where gardeners around Germany see if they can grow record-breaking pumpkins.

The weight to beat is just over 1,400lb.

Also – perhaps unsurprisingly – the restaurant at the 17th Century Castle Ludwigsburg makes use of the pumpkin flesh, with dishes including pies, curries and hearty stews.

Pumpkin enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that the pumpkin festival - said to be the largest pumpkin festival in the world - continues until early November.

World’s Longest Cucumber

Gardener grows ‘world’s longest cucumber’ - A British grandmother may be entering the record books after growing what she thinks is the world’s longest cucumber.

Clare Pearce’s record breaking Giant Cucumber reached at least 47in in a straight line from top to bottom, and was about four inches longer if its curve was included in the measurement.

The current world record for the longest cucumber was set almost two years ago by Frank Dimmock of Thame in Oxfordshire. His effort reached 41.25in.

Although Mrs Pearce's cucumber eventually decomposed she also has a second slightly smaller cucumber that is still longer than the current record at 42in.

She has now invited Guinness World Record officals to examine the vegetable in the hope that it will be officially recognised as a new record.

The 78-year-old grandmother of 12 said: “At times it was like it was growing before my eyes. I couldn’t quite believe it.

“I’ve never grown cucumbers before but I knew it was massive. My daughter contacted the Guinness World Records but apparently we needed a horticulturist to verify it, and we didn’t know one.”

Mrs Pearce planted the Cucumber Melonie seeds in the greenhouse in the back garden of her home in Whittlesey, near Peterborough, in May.

The record breaking cucumber continued to grow until August when it fell from the plant. Unfortunately it then turned yellow and started to decompose, so the family had to cut it into much smaller chunks to dispose of it.

“I’ve no idea why they grew to be so big,” added Mrs Pearce, a retired administrator.

“I just watered them. The only thing I can think that I did differently was that once, fairly early on, I was feeding the tomatoes with tomato feed and I had a bit too much, so I used up what was left on the cucumbers.”

Mrs Pearce is currently in the process of confirming if the cucumbers have officially set a new world record.

World's Longest Lunch Table Seats

World's longest table seats 2,700 for lunch In further proof that some people will go to great lengths to break world records, chefs in Italy have attempted to break the record for the world's longest table - servig lunch on a table over a mile long.

The 1,760 metre-long spread was laid on in Bosco, near Parma in northern Italy for 2,700 diners - and the record bid is now being examined by Guinness World Records officials.

As well as the table itself, which ran for over a mile through the sunlit countryside from Bosco to nearby Borzano, the dinner also required a tablecloth 1,800 metres in length. Impressively, the whole thing was set up with just 20 days planning, after a bet between friends took on a life of its own.

'We wanted to organise a really special lunch, and we'll give all the money we raised to the local hospital Madonna dell'Uliveto,' said organiser Laurenti Marastoni.

'It was a great lunch - even if the waiter service was a little bit slow,' commented one rather picky guest.

Joey Chestnut becomes burrito eating crown

Competitive eater Joey Chestnut is now king of the burrito.

Chestnut, also known as "Jaws," downed 47 burritos in 10 minutes at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque on Saturday, beating the previous record of 33 1/2.

Known for his hot-dog eating, Chestnut won the annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest at New York's Coney Island for the fourth year in a row this summer.

Chestnut, of San Jose, Calif., won $1,500 for the feat in New Mexico Saturday. The burritos in the Garcia's World Burrito Eating Championship were stuffed with beef, beans and the state's famous green chile.

The event is sanctioned by the Major League Eating & International Federation of Competitive Eating, the world body that oversees all international professional eating contests.

World's Biggest Naan Bread Unveiled

The world’s largest naan bread has been created by Honeytop Speciality Foods to celebrate the launch of Brewers Fayre’s curry nights.

The record-breaking naan was 10ft by 4ft and has a total area of 40 sq ft - the equivalent of 167 normal size naan breads – and took bakers over five hours to make and 8 staff to carry.

The beast of breads was made using an authentic naan recipe including yoghurt, ghee and Kalonji seeds and weighing more than 40kg and cooked in a specialist tandoori-style oven with the capacity to cook an authentic bread of such magnitude.

The giant naan is believed to have smashed the previous record set by Asda and baked by Honeytop in 2004 which measured 7.7ft by 3.3ft.

The naan was later devoured by the Brewers Fayre team, who admitted: “We can’t think of a more fun way to launch our curry nights.”

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World's Biggest Chocolate Bar

Largest Chocolate Bar On Earth - Anyone looking for huge amounts of free chocolate should book a flight to Armenia's capital next month. That's when the world's largest chocolate bar will be up for grabs in Yerevan's main square. The Guinness Book of World Records certified the 9,702-pound (4,410-kilogram) chocolate bar at a ceremony Saturday.

It was made by Grand Candy factory and contains all natural ingredients, including 70 percent cocoa mass. The chocolate bar is 224 inches (560 centimeters) long, 110 inches (275 centimeters) wide and 10 inches (25 centimeters) thick.

The factory owner, Karen Vardanyan, said that the chocolate bar was produced to mark the 10th anniversary of the company. He said it will be divided up and handed out Oct. 16.





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Man Swimming Tied Break World Record

Will Sun Yongding - A Chinese man aims to hoping to set a new Guinness world record for swimming with arms and legs tied

Sun Yongding has been practising his stunt in the Qinghuai River in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu Province.

A helpful friend ties up the 47-year-old's arms and legs before he throws himself into the river and starts swimming.

He is able to cover a distance of around 500 metres in ten minutes and his record is swimming 1.8km (1.1 miles).

'When I was young a lot of my pals were trying to swim in creative ways and I thought of swimming with four limbs tied up then,' he says.

Sun started to take the idea seriously from 2001 and, to start with, practised swimming using only his arms or only his legs.

He then gradually learnt to swim with both arms.

Source : Metro

Belgian Setting Chip Making Record

A Belgian maker of French fries, the country's proud national dish, has set a new world record for non-stop chip-making after frying mountains of potato strips for 83 consecutive hours.

The record by 53-year-old Chris Verschueren, owner of a French fries business, beat by 11 hours a previous record of 72 hours set in 1987 by a Briton chip chef.

"My fingers are burnt, my feet are sore and my wrist is painful," he told Belga national news agency. "But it doesn't matter, I'm going to party now."

From the time he turned on the heat Friday morning in his village of Kastel till he ran out of steam Monday night, Verschueren cooked up 1,500 kilos of chips, taking a 100-minute break after 20 hours for a shower and a stretch.

His bid to set a new record for the amount of chips sold -- 1,500 bags -- failed however.

The new world record-holder embarked on the challenge in order to raise funds for a children's hospital as his own five-year-old has been ill since birth.







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Edward Nino Hernandez - Shortest Man

Edward Nino Hernandez born in Colombia is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the worlds shortest living man. At 24 years of age Hernandez is 70cm (27.46-inch) tall and weighed 10kg (22lbs). He lives in Bogotá. It was officialy named as the worlds shortest living man in earth on September 4, 2010.

He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a fast car and wants to see the world.

Top on his list of people he would like to meet are Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

He is slightly taller than a piece of carry-on luggage and weighs just 22lbs (10kgs).

And he has just been officially certified as the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records, measuring 27ins.

Nino, who works part time as a dancer, said:'I feel happy because I'm unique.'

He also reveals he has a girlfriend - an 18-year-old who is just under 5ft.

Although he has cataracts in both of his eyes that blur his vision and, require urgent surgery that the family can't afford, the budding actor has won a part in a new film, playing a drug thief.

He may like being in the spotlight, but Nino said there are some drawbacks to being the world's smallest man.

'It bothers me that people are always touching me and picking me up,' he said.

Nino's mother, Noemi Hernandez, said of her oldest of five children: 'He hasn't grown since he was two years old.'

She added that doctors never could explain why Nino is so small.

'They never gave us a diagnosis,' Mrs Hernandez, 43, said from her home in Bosa, a poor district of southern Bogota.

She said Nino weighed just 3.3lb (1.5kg) when he was born and was just 15 inches long.

Doctors were at first intrigued as to why he was so small and studied him until he was three years old, but then 'lost interest'.

She and her husband, a security guard, lost a daughter who was born similarly small in 1992.

Their youngest child, Miguel Angel, 11, stands 37ins tall. The other three boys are of normal height and appearance.

Nino is mentally sharp and laughs easily though it's sometimes hard to understand his high-pitched speech and his stubby fingers make writing difficult.

He had to repeat several years of school before dropping out aged about 13.

His mother said he loves to travel - though he hasn't been outside Colombia - and likes to play dominoes and checkers.

'He only gets depressed when he's shut in at home,' she added.

However, it is unclear whether Nino's fame will last long.

Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is expected to take over after he turns 18 in October. He measures about 22ins and is currently recognized by Guinness as the shortest living teen.

The previous smallest man in the world was He Pingping of China, who was 1.5 inches taller and died in March.









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Bog snorkelling

Bog Snorkelling Championships World Record is a sporting event that consists of competitors completing two consecutive lengths of a 60-yard (55 m) water filled trench cut through a peat bog, in the shortest time possible. Competitors must wear snorkels and flippers, and complete the course without using conventional swimming strokes, relying on flipper power alone. Wet suits are not compulsory, but are usually worn.

163 competitors from around the world - many in fancy dress, as is encouraged by the competitions organisers - took part in the event, completing two lengths of a trench in the murky Waen Rhydd Bog near Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales.

Crowds of spectators watched as Dan Morgan, from Brecon, destroyed the previous record time by almost eight seconds, completing the 110 metre course in 1 minute 30.66 seconds.

Organisers had anticipated fast times as the trenches had recently been cleaned.

Llanwrtyd Wells, the UK's smallest town, is noted for its unusual sporting events, also hosting the Man Versus Horse Marathon and a bog snorkelling triathlon, which includes a seven and a half mile run and a 19-mile bike ride, as well as two lengths of the infamous bog.

Organiser John Crompton said: 'It was a good turnout. Everyone had a good time. The weather was pretty miserable to start with. It was wet and rainy and the rain was coming down horizontally. By the end of the day it brightened up.'

Asked to explain the event's increasing popularity, Crompton said: 'The potential of being a world champion at something, I suppose. There's not many things you can be world champion at without any preparation, you can just jump in and swim.'











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Qatayef

Qatayef (قطايف) is an Arab dessert commonly reserved for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, a sort of sweet crepe filled with cheese or nuts. Palestinians make biggest "Qatayef" dessert to set world record

Palestinian sweets-makers prepare the biggest piece of eastern dessert "Qatayef" during an event organized by the tourism ministry to make a new world record, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The Qatayef piece is weigh about 104 kilograms and its diameter is three meters.