Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Longest sausage: Chef Alberto Della Pelle and his team sets world record
PENNE, Italy -- Chef Alberto Della Pelle from Penne, a small town in central Italy, helped by nine colleagues, created a  sausage 597.8m long in the main street -
setting the new world record for the Longest sausage.
(enlarge photo)
The previous Guinness world record for the Longest sausage was set by Romania, with a sausage measuring 392m in lengt.
Guinness World Records also recognized the longest sausage chain: it measured 1,500 m (4,921 ft 3 in) and was made by the guild of butchers of Gelsenkirchen (Germany) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
More than half a tonne of meat - weighing exactly 1,300 lbs - was used to stuff the skin for the longest-ever sausage, which was produced in the main street.
Head chef Alberto Della Pelle said: 'We are very proud to have created a new world record with such delicious food.'
The new World's Longest Sausage will be sliced to fill 6,000 sandwiches which will be sold to raise funds for the charity Caritas.
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