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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/worlds-largest-round-pizza-record_n_2315812.html

The record for the world's largest round pizza -- which also happened to be a gluten-free pizza -- was shattered last week when a team of five Italian chefs collaborated to bake a 131-foot dish, according to a press release.

The team was headed by Dovilio Nardi, whose previous endeavors have involved forming an Italian pizza chain that catered toward customers with celiac disease. The event was organized by Dr. Schar, a company that produces gluten-free food.

The pie contained 19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce, 8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 1,488 pounds of margarine, 551 pounds of rock salt, 220 pounds of lettuce and 55 pounds of vinegar. It weighed 51,257 pounds.

The process of baking such a massive pizza is as arduous as it sounds. The five chefs spent over 48 hours baking the dough in over 5,000 batches. Their efforts paid off when the team broke the previous record, set in 1990 by Norwood Pick'n Pay hypermarket in South Africa. The former record holders' pizza was made with gluten, and measured 122 feet in diameter.

The newly-crowned largest pizza was named Ottavia, an homage to the first Roman emperor Octavian Augustus.

 

[vatstep]

I want to go to there.

 

[shinobi602]

You could feed ten thousand dogs with that thing.

 

[HiResDes]

How do you bake it?

 

[RoboPlato]

We're going to need a bigger cat.

 

[Ferrio]

I don't think these things should be awarded "biggest" when you cook the dough in batches. That's not how you cook a pizza. That's just slapping a bunch of pizzas together.

 

[HiResDes]

Now we all know what Timedog wished for before the end of the world.

 

[Deleted member 81567]

timedog cums

 

[GK86]

he pie contained 19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce, 8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 1,488 pounds of margarine, 551 pounds of rock salt, 220 pounds of lettuce and 55 pounds of vinegar. It weighed 51,257 pounds.

Such of waste.

 

[D4Danger]

lettuce?

 

[Blair]

We seal our human legacy with this great deed.

 

[Kafel]

ugh, no meat on a pizza

 

[Data West]

I'll say they did it. And we're still cleaning it up!

 

[HiResDes]

lettuce?

Yeah what the fuck...No greens, just whites.

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

You could feed ten thousand dogs with that thing.

you mean cats?

 

[Protein]

They better make use of it. I wouldn't feel right throwing that all away while people are going hungry.

 

[mr stroke]

No pepperoni WTF?

 

[disco]

Ewww.

 

[ZedIndyLil]

I initially read that as "Soylent News & Photo Agency" and wondered what the hell was on that pizza.

 

[Frost_Ace]

No pepperoni WTF?

You know that pepperoni are an american only thing right

 

[MIMIC]

You know that pepperoni are an american only thibg right

Time for the world to catch up then! =p

 

[gamma]

mmm, pizza.

 

[heliosRAzi]

You could feed ten thousand dogs with that thing.

you mean cats?

 

[Husker86]

Cheese pizza? Record invalidated.

 

[strafer]

No pineapple?

Fuck that pizza.

 

[ShirAhava]

Feed it Pizza

 

[Koodo]

Well, well, well.

 

[speedline]

55Lbs of vinegar?

 

[Kammie]

I don't see a single hairnet there. Yuck.

 

[Outlaw]

 

[speculawyer]

Lettuce? On Pizza?

And I guess they don't cook it? I'm confused.

 

[kirblar]

lettuce?

Beat me to it.