Going For A Food Record? Here’s What You’re Up Against

Americans love “The World’s Largest” anything - including the world’s largest servings of food.

Restaurant portions have gotten so huge that people with ordinary appetites almost always leave with a container, which proceeds to leak on clothes and car. (You can tell the menu from the smell of my trunk - right now it’s a garlicky Thai sauce that dribbled onto my road atlas).

I recently leafed through the 1995 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records in search of some of the reeally big foods. Here are a few:

The largest cake, a mere 128,238 pounds, was baked in the shape of Alabama.

The largest cookie, made in Arcadia, Calif., was 35 by 28-1/2 feet and contained 3 million chocolate chips.

The largest doughnut, a jelly doughnut (calling Elvis), weighed 3,739 pounds. It was 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high, made in Utica, N.Y., in 1993.

The longest loaf of bread in the U.S. was baked in Vergennes, Vt., in 1987. At just under half a mile long, it’s no match for the world’s longest continuous sausage - a 13-1/8 -mile-long monster made in Great Britain in 1988.

The biggest zucchini - 64-1/2 pounds - was grown in Great Britain in 1990. Imagine a gardener trying to give that one away.