The Largest Versions of 8 Delicious Foods

1. Pizza

The world’s largest commercially available pizza didn’t come from New York City or Chicago. The prize actually goes to the Dirt Road Cookers in San Antonio, Texas, who broke the record this past August. Their pizza was more than 46 square feet, and weighed 100 pounds. But that’s small time compared to the 26,883-pound pizza made by South Africa’s Norwood Hypermarket in 1990. Or the more than 51,000-pound, gluten-free pizza created by Dovilio Nardi, an Italian, in 2012. Because pizza lovers are apparently very specific, theses pizzas can all call themselves world-record holders.

While the Pizza Boss pizza cutter might not be able to handle a 51,000-pound pie, it should be much, much more than sufficient for any pizza you cook up in your home oven.

2. Chocolate Chip Cookie

Immaculate Baking Company

The world’s largest cookie was created by the Immaculate Baking Company in 2003. After eight months of planning—which included strategizing, building a special oven, test baking, and acquiring 40,000 pounds of ingredients—the bakers set to work in a field next to Immaculate Baking’s Flat Rock, N.C., store. The final product was 102 feet wide, beating the previous record holder by about 20 feet. Immaculate Baking sold pieces of the cookie for $10, with proceeds going toward the building of a folk artist museum.

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3. Pumpkin Pie

The New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers of New Bremen, Ohio, put those giant pumpkins to good use in 2010 when they created the world’s largest pumpkin pie. It was 20 feet in diameter and weighed nearly 3700 pounds, destroying New Bremen’s previous world record pie, which measured 12 feet and weighed a measly 2020 pounds.

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4. Ice Cream Cone

World Record Academy

Officially, the world’s largest ice cream cone was made in Italy and was actually filled with gelato (of course). The internal part of the cone, which was 9 feet tall, consisted of a mix of wafer and white chocolate, and was then decorated with 2,000 round wafer biscuits. But according to reports, this record was beaten in 2012 by experimental chef Heston Blumenthal in Gloucester, England. His cone was a staggering 13 feet high and held more than 2,200 pounds of ice cream, leading to serious brain freeze.

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5. Salad

Who said being the world’s biggest meant you had to be unhealthy? The largest salad was created by more than 600 volunteers in Crete, Greece, and weighed almost 30,000 pounds. In true Greek style, the fixings included tomatoes, cucumber, onions, green peppers, feta cheese, olive oil, oregano, and salt. In other salad news, the dining services team at the University of Massachusetts made the world’s largest fruit salad this month, weighing in at nearly 7000 pounds. The salad included basic fruit, like grapes and apples, as well as lychee and dragonfruit. I wonder if those college kids still opted for cheese fries in the dining hall?

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6. Burrito

CBRiveras

For some of us, burritos are big enough as is. But that didn’t stop CANIRAC La Paz, in Mexico, from creating one that weighed nearly 13,000 pounds in 2010. The burrito was filled with fish, onion, chile, and refried beans. Most impressive? It was made from a single flour tortilla and required 3,000 volunteers to fill and roll it.

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7. Cupcakes

The bakers at Georgetown Cupcake in Washington, D.C.—who also have their own TLC reality show, DC Cupcakes—hold the record for the world’s largest cupcake. It weighed more than 2,500 pounds, stood at 3 feet tall, and was 56 inches in diameter. The oven and pan used to bake the cupcake were both custom made for the endeavor, which was featured on an hour-long DC Cupcakes episode.

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8. Cocktail

After all that big food, what could be more perfect than a giant margarita to wash it down? The “Calarita Margarita,” a concoction made by Nick Nicora in Sacramento, California, consisted of 2100 gallons of Jose Cuervo tequila, 4 gallons of Cointreau, 2800 gallons of margarita mix, 75 40-pound bags of ice, 5190 gallons of water, and 50 gallons of lime juice. A 30-foot-tall “cocktail shaker” was also crafted for the event. Nicora has been trying his hand at big food for a few years now: he helped create a 777-pound, 1.3 million-calorie hamburger in 2011.

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