Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Largest
bowl of porridge
- Scott's Porage Oats sets world
record
CUPAR, Scotland, UK -- A giant bowl of porridge,
weighing 690 kilograms, enough to feed 2000 people, was made
at the annual Highland Games in Cupar
-
setting the new world record for the Largest
bowl of porridge
.
Photo: Harry, age five (left) and Reuben
Beaton, age seven, help break the record for the world's
largest bowl of porridge
at the Cupar Highland Games in
Fife.
( enlarge
photo
)
The record attempt for the Largest
bowl of porridge in The World
was made by a team from Cupar Round Table
with the help of food firm Scott's
Porage Oats.
Craig Manson, chairman of Cupar Round Table,
which runs the Highland Games, said it had been a very exciting
and ambitious challenge.
"We have achieved our goal of breaking
the record and put Cupar back on the map," he added.
It took more than seven hours to cook
the bowl of Scotland's traditional breakfast. Local firefighters
were on hand to add water from their fire engine, before the
mixture was heated and left to cook for several hours.
The attempt for the world's
largest bowl of porridge
used a specially-made bowl
measuring 1.5m in height and width, which was transported
by a forklift truck for measuring.
Some of the porridge was tried by officials
at the event, but most of it will go on to be used as animal
feed. (Unfortunately, the 'adjudicators' from Guinness
World Records still accept such a big waste of food).
The oats were provided by Scott's Porage
Oats from their Cupar factory. Hayley Stringfellow, Marketing
Director of Scott's Porage Oats, added: "We are thrilled to
have set a new World Record."
"Cupar is the home of Scott's Porage Oats,
so it's only fitting that the record for the biggest bowl
of porridge should be held here," Stringfellow added.
The previous Guinness World Record for the Largest
bowl of porridge
was a 171kg bowl, set in Manchester
last year.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010