Caritas Italy makes the world’s longest sausage

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

ROME – ITALY on Sunday snatched from Romania the record for the production of the world’s longest sausage when a team of pork butchers crafted a delicacy more than half a kilometre long, the Ansa news agency reported.

Alberto Della Pelle from Penne, a small town in central Italy, helped by nine colleagues, created a sausage 597.8m long in the main street.

It was officially measured and declared to have beaten easily the previous Romanian record-holder, only 392m in length.

The monster sausage will be sliced to fill 6,000 sandwiches which will be sold to raise funds for the charity Caritas.

Source
AFP

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