Friday, September
10, 2010
Longest french fries cooking marathon -
Chris Verschueren sets world record
ANTWERP, Belgium -- Belgian Chris Verschueren,
a 53-year-old French fries maker, from the Belgian village
of Kastel, has spent 83 consecutive hours frying chips and
serving 15,000 portions of the dish - setting
the new world record for the
Longest
french fries cooking marathon.
Photo: Verschueren cooked up 1,500 kilos
of chips, taking a 100-minute break after 20 hours for a shower
and a stretch He has set the new world record for the
Longest
french fries cooking marathon.
(enlarge
photo)
"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."
Record adjudicators allowed him to take
a 100-minute break after 20 hours, but other than that he
worked straight through.
Although he couldn’t reach his goal of selling
1,500 bags of French fries, the national Belgian dish, Verschueren
managed to break the old Guinness World Record for non-stop
French fry making, of 72 hours, set in 1987 by a British
cook.
Photo: People queue up to have French
fries. / AFP photo (enlarge
photo)
Verschueren sold the dish per 1 euro for
a portion.
One half of the money will go to a university
clinic in Leuven, in the central Belgium province of Brabant,
for the treatment of ill children, as the son of the Belgian
suffers from hemiplegia.
The second half of the money will go to
cover the expenses for serving the food.
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Friday, September 10, 2010
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