Iranians attempt world's longest sandwich

Posted By Joshua Keating Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 12:56 PM Share

Some day I'm going to tell my grandchildren that I remember the days when ridiculous stunts involving massive amounts of food were dominated by Americans. I could live with Japan winning U.S. hot dog eating contests, but this is just too much:

Apparently, the crowd's hunger seems to have gotten the best of them before Guinness officials could measure this ostrich-meat monster. Never mind nukes -- I expect the next U.S. president to take concrete steps to ensure that the Iranians never again comes this close to sandwich dominance.

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