SOUTH AFRICA: WORLD'S LARGEST PIZZA NEEDS SPECIAL SCAFFOLD TO COOK IT

Record ID: 460267

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: WORLD'S LARGEST PIZZA NEEDS SPECIAL SCAFFOLD TO COOK IT
  • Date: 9th December 1990
  • Summary: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (DECEMBER 7/8, 1990) (DECEMBER 7) 1. GV/SVS CATERING TENT AND PREPARATIONS FOR COOKING PIZZA (4 SHOTS) 0.18 2. CU SIGN SHOWING INGREDIENTS OF PIZZA 0.22 (DECEMBER 8) 3. TV GIANT PIZZA VIEWED FROM ABOVE 0.30 4. CU PIZZA BEING COOKED BY HANGING BURNERS 0.33 5. SV MAYOR ARRIVING 0.38 6. CU PULL BACK TO SV MAYOR CUTTING FIRST PIECE OF PIZZA 7. SV MAYOR PRESENTS PIZZA TO TEENAGE MUTANT TURTLE 0.50 8. GV/SVS CROWDS WATCH AS TURTLE WALKS THROUGH (3 SHOTS) 1.02 9. SVS PIZZA BEING CUT (3 SHOTS) 1.14 10. SVS PIZZA BEING PUT IN SMALL BOXES AND SOLD (2 SHOTS) 1.20 11. SV PEOPLE EATING PIZZA 1.23 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th December 1990 12:00
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  • Location: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA87Q62K03CY4FRTRAYODS1EHEM
  • Story Text: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

    A South African supermarket on Friday (December 7) made the world's largest pizza. It was so big that chefs had to use a special scaffold to cook it.

    The record pizza, prepared in Johannesburg, measured 37 metres (yards) in diameter, easily outstripping the previous record of 33.9 metres (yards) set in Singapore in June.

    Ingredients included 4,500 kilograms (9,900 pounds) of flour, 900 kilograms (19,800 pounds) of tomato puree, 900 kilograms (19,800 pounds) of chopped onions, 1,800 kilograms (3,960 pounds) of cheese, 800 kilograms (17,600 pounds) of mushrooms and 2,925 litres of water.

    The Mayor of Johannesburg was at the ceremony to cut the first slice of pizza and to witness the event for the Guinness Book of Records. Slices of the pizza, which also contained 10 Krugerrand gold coins, were sold for charity.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - MARK CHISHOLM</strong>
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