The Guinness Book of World Records has located the world’s largest Snickers bar in the Lone Star State.
So. Australia is burning. America and Iran are on the brink of war. The 22 richest men in the world possess more wealth than all of the women in Africa combined. But some folks aren’t losing sight of their dreams.
The Guinness Book of World Records – which at this point exists for no other reason than to encourage the pursuit of ridiculous stunts – has certified the world’s largest Snickers bar.
Where? In Texas, of course. The bar was created at the Mars Wrigley Confectionary in Waco, which lies bang in between Dallas and Austin. It weighs more than 2000 kilograms. It’s more than half a metre tall and approximately 60cms wide. Or perhaps this is a better measure – it’s the size of 43,000 single Snickers bars put together.
Guinness representative Michael Empric was on site to certify the world record. “This is incredibly impressive,” he said to local TV station KWKT. “Some of my favourite record categories are big food because it has to be edible and it is also an engineering feat. So to get a 5000lb bar of chocolate to stay together is really challenging.”
Yeah, we bet. But the workers at Waco’s Mars Wrigley Confectionary ain’t no chumps. The plant claims to be one of the world’s largest producers of Snickers as well as other favourites M&M’s and Skittles. They spent a week producing the bar, presumably after checking the news and sensing the end of the world was nigh.
Watch: World’s largest Snickers bar unveiled in Waco
Mars workers around the USA will reportedly be sent pieces of the mammoth bar. It’s a real chocolate bar, after all, and can’t just sit in a museum cabinet.
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“It’s the largest chocolate nut bar ever made in the world,” said Snickers’ value manager Ruud Engbers. “[This] absolutely is [an example] of, I think, what you could call, ‘Everything is bigger in Texas.’”
He’s not wrong.
