Scotch egg.
Obviously no chicken could lay an adequately sized egg, so an ostrich one was sourced, weighing 1.7 kg, covered in sausage meat, haggis and 800g of breadcrumbs.
Crisps
We’ve heard the expression a “shedload full” of something, but how about a “house-load”?
That’s what Corkers Crisps of Little Downham in Cambridgeshire set about creating in September last year. The end result was a bag of crisps as high as an average-sized house, weighing over a ton and a Guinness World Record.
It took two attempts to beat the previous mark as the bag split – a common problem with crisp packets! Still, after 20 hours of hard work they duly smashed the 500kg record set in Japan in 2012.
You might not think that the grandson of a pig breeder would have much in common with setting culinary world records, but Gary McClure, now Executive Chef of Made in Cumbria who also produces free range pork and is the chef at Woodland Free Range Meats, holds the Guinness world record holder for the largest curled and cooked sausage in the world.
You might then say it’s in the family, but this Cumberland sausage has nothing ordinary about it, weighing a massive 135kg and with a diameter of 3.3 metres. Unsurprisingly it required a custom made griddle in order to cook it!
All these delectable main courses and snacks should definitely be finished off with something sweet.
Heading to Soho Square, London paid off for commuters one summer day last year as the World's largest Eton mess caused a stir.
With over 50kg of strawberries and other berries, and buckets of cream and meringues, 167 kgs of Eton mess were served to the general public by British chefs in an enormous martini glass.
£110 cheese sandwich
Although not technically on the same scale as the other items here, the pièce de résistance has to be from chef Martin Blunos’s £110 cheese sandwich.
This might sound excessive, but for that price you do get a rare creation from a man with two
Michelin stars. Between the triple-layered, fermented sour dough bread, which itself costs £5, you’ll find West Country Farmhouse Cheddar infused with white truffles, Iberico ham, poulet de Bresse, quail egg yolk mayonnaise and semi-dried tomatoes.
In case that’s not enough, to top off all these organic ingredients there’s a dash of 100 year old balsamic vinegar and a sprinkling of gold leaf to ‘cleanse’ the body afterwards. Not just you’re average sub then...
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