Saturday, September 11, 2010
Largest chocolate bar - world record
set by the Grand Candy factory
YEREVAN, Armenia -- Armenian company Grand
Candy unveiled a 10-inch-thick (25-centimetre) chocolate
bar containing all natural ingredients, including 70 percent
cocoa mass, weighing in at 9,720 pounds (4,410 kilograms)
and measuring 18.4 feet (5.60 metres) by nine feet (2.75 metres)-
which sets the
new world record for the Largest
chocolate bar.
Photo: Reporters make images of in the
Largest
chocolate bar in
the World
produced by the Grand Candy factory in the Armenian capital,
Yerevan. The world's
biggest chocolate bar weighs 4,410 kilograms (9,702
pounds). / AP photo (enlarge
photo)
Grand
Candy CEO Karen Vardanian told journalists the Largest
chocolate bar in
the World was produced in honour of the company's
10th anniversary.
The world's
biggest chocolate bar, containing cocoa beans from
Ghana, is 224in long, 110in wide and 10in thick. It will be
divided up and handed out to members of the public next month.
For those who want milk chocolate, you will
be disappointed. The Armenian World's
Biggest Chocolate Bar is reportedly dark chocolate.
Hershey's may in fact be jealous.
The previous Guinness World Record was
a chocolate bar produced by Elah Dufour-Novi in Alessandria,
Piemonte, Italy in October 2007 that weighted 3,580 kilograms
(7,890 pounds).
Guinness World Records representative
Elizabeth Smith presented the factory owner Karen Vardanyan
with an official certificate during a ceremony. She said she
was glad to witness what she described as an "incredible event".
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