Italy breaking a world record involving food is not surprising, especially if it's pizza.
"As part of Milan's Expo 2015, a horde of 60 pizza makers gathered to make one colossal pie on Saturday," Mashable reported. "They used 1.7 tons of flour, 1.5 tons of mozzarella and 2 tons of tomato sauce to make a pizza that measured 1.59545 kilometers long - just short of one mile. It was cooked using five ovens."
Oddly, the pizza only required eight onions. Each meter took three minutes to bake.
And how many people did it take to consume the lengthy, delectable treat? According to People, 30,000 expo attendees stood in line and were served a slice of the record-breaking pie. And all that pizza-making effort had apparently got viewers craving for a slice of the margherita pizza, as shown by one Twitter user's cravings.
"Periscope had me watching the making of the world's longest pizza. And now I'm really hungry for a slice," Ampursand's post said.
The epic pizza took over 800 tables, with about 300 meters of the 1,595.45-meter pie allocated to Milan's Banco Alimentare food bank, The Sydney Morning Herald said.
The said effort was done in celebration of the 126th anniversary of the margherita pizza.
"The recipe was first whipped up in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito of the Brandi pizzeria in the grand Bourbon palace in Naples in southern Italy - a summer residence for the kings of the Two Sicilies - for Queen Regina Margherita," the publication said.
Italy's feat beat previous record holder Spain's 1,141.5-meter pizza. The Spanish attempt took place in 2011 during the "Día de la Región de Castilla de La Mancha," which is "a day of regional celebrations in the Spanish region of Castilla de La Mancha," according to Guinness World Records.
"The length of the pizza was cooked in a specially manufactured oven which was placed over the table on which the pizza was placed and carried over the entire 1 km 141 m of the pizza, cooking it from start to finish," the news source added. "The whole process took approximately 3 hours. The width of the pizza was 36 cm (14.17 in). At the end of the attempt the pizza was cut into slices and sold for 1 Euro each. The money collected was donated to a local charity."
This is not the first time Italy has figured in a world breaking pizza-making effort, though. In 2013, a different team in Milan churned out the largest dessert pizza, which had pistachio cream, cocoa, grated hazelnuts, and sugar icing as toppings, The Independent said.
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