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And you think you helped swallow a really big pizza recently? You have nothing on this one.
When Pizza Hut decided to bring back its “Big New Yorker” pizza – a cheese and pepperoni pie with collapsible slices designed to be eaten on the go in true Manhattan style – the company wanted to find a way to celebrate the news.
The idea: take New York to Los Angeles and collaborate with YouTube star Airrack (aka Eric Decker).
So they headed to the Los Angeles Convention Center, whose space would be big enough to hold a 13,990 square foot pizza, in a bid to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest pizza.
They went to work on the gigantic pizza on Wednesday. And Friday, Pizza Hut sent the official word: a Guinness representative on site confirmed that it was indeed the largest pizza in the world.
CNN Travel contacted Guinness by email Friday afternoon for comment, but had not received a response by 5 p.m. ET Friday.
To accomplish the enormous task, workers first laid down layers of dough, the tomato sauce was painted on, and then toppings were added. Once everything was settled, it was cooked in pieces, according to Pizza Hut’s press release.
A total of 13,653 pounds (6,193 kilograms) of dough, 4,948 pounds of pizza sauce, over 8,800 pounds of cheese, and approximately 630,496 pieces of pepperoni went into making the record pie.
Pizza Hut CEO David Graves told Reuters the pizza would not go to waste – as soon as the pizza was ready and documented for Guinness, its 68,000 slices would be donated to local food banks.
The previous Guinness record for the largest pizza in the world was set in 2012 by a group of Italian chefs. Their pizza was 1,261.65 square meters, gluten-free and called Ottavia.
