Another day, another attempt to record-breaking food-related. We had the world's longest pizza, now how about two tons of fries to go with it?
Unfortunately, or Fortunately, depending on how you look at it, trying to Grand Forks (North Dakota) "the world's largest French Fry Feed" failed.
Despite the name which seems quite appropriate, Grand Forks was able to get enough people forking up chips, as reported twincities.com. 4110 pounds of French fries (about 2 tonnes) were fried-less than the record 4890, set a couple of years ago.
Some might say that records are made to be broken, but is this obsession with records related to feed a sign of growing our dysfunctional relationship with food? How competitive eating, producing large quantities of food (many of which are likely to go to the trash) seems misguided at best and at worst severely wasted.
Once we broke records were sporting ones: miles faster, jump higher, highest bidder. Let's just hope that today's children will not grow with the goal to beat the record for "Biggest Burger Eaten" ...
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