PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (EYT) — Breaking a Guinness World Record might look easy from a distance, but Punxsy Pizza’s Scott Anthony found out just how difficult it really is.
Last Saturday in Fontana, California, at the Auto Club Speedway, Anthony (pictured above with Christina Conlon of the Guinness World Book of Records) was one of a select group of invited pizza makers in the U.S., and the lone one from Pennsylvania, who helped build the world’s longest pizza.
When all was said and done, the completed, rectangular pie measured more than a mile.
The cheese pizza was 6,333 feet long, breaking the world record of 6,082 feet set in Naples, Italy a year ago.
The pizza required massive quantities with 8,000 pounds of dough, 6,000 pounds of sauce, and 5,600 pounds of cheese.
That’s nearly 10 tons.
“It was really a lot of work, and it turned out to be a lot harder to pull off than I thought,” Anthony said. “What proved to be very impressive was how everyone worked together to get it done.”
laist.com, the event was devised by a pizza oven distributor, pizzaovens.com.
