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Italian chefs make world's longest sausage
Butchers in Italy have pinched the record for creating the world's longest sausage from their Romanian counterparts, creating a banger more than half a kilometre long.
What a banger: Creation of the record-breaking longest sausage (Pic: CEN)
The 594-metre long sausage took ten cooks from Penne, a small town in the centre of the country, three hours to craft.
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.
It was officially measured at 597.8m and was declared to have easily beaten the previous Romanian record-holder, whose sausage was only 392m in length, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
The giant sausage was cut up into 7,000 ordinary-sized bangers, stuffed in sandwiches and sold to the spectators to raise money for local charity Caritas.
Head chef Alberto Della Pelle said: 'We are very proud to have created a new world record with such delicious food.'
Italy's getting something of a reputation for smashing culinary world records - in 2008 the town of Mottola, Puglia, produced in the world�s largest flat bread focaccia pizza, covering 297 square metres.
And, in 2004, Mottola made the world�s longest sandwich, which spanned 634.5 metres in length.03-22-11 11:25 AM
