Chefs in Guatemala have made the biggest fiambre salad ever recorded, using more than 4,000 pounds of meat and vegetables — that’s heavier than a giraffe!
The enormous dish, made by food company Toledo Alimentos, weighed in at 1,962.2 kilograms once officially measured, smashing the record of 500 kilograms needed to qualify. A team of chefs and volunteers mixed in 52 different ingredients, including eggs, sausages, corn, peppers and a traditional sauce called caldillo, stirring it all together with giant wooden paddles.
The record-breaking salad was made in a plaza in Guatemala City on 24 October, just ahead of the days Guatemalans traditionally serve fiambre, around 1 and 2 November.
Fiambre is a chilled salad packed with dozens of ingredients, and families across Guatemala have made their own versions for generations. The tradition is said to have started when relatives brought different foods to share at the graves of their ancestors, and ended up mixing them all together into one giant dish.
Guinness World Records adjudicator Susana Reyes said watching the attempt unfold was “an extraordinary experience.” Toledo Alimentos commercial director Juan José Gutierrez Herrarte said the dish was about more than food. “For Toledo, fiambre is much more than a seasonal recipe: it is family, unity, and pride in what is ours,” he said.
Māori Version
He Rare Nui Rawa Atu i Hangaia e Guatemala, Pakaru te Rekoata
Kua hangaia e ngā kaitunu kai i Guatemala te rare fiambre nui rawa atu kua tuhia, mā te whakamahi i te 4,000 pāunu neke atu o te mīti me te huawhenua — he taumaha ake i tētahi kirafi!
I hangaia tēnei rīhi nui e te kamupene kai, ko Toledo Alimentos, ā, i te mea i inea mo te tika, 1,962.2 kirokaramu te taumaha, i pakaru rawa te rekoata o 500 kirokaramu i hiahiatia kia tika mai. I whakakotahi te rōpū kaitunu kai me ngā kaiāwhina i te 52 kai rerekē, tae atu ki te heki, ngā paenga, ngā kānga, ngā kapukapu me tētahi rōrōtu tuku iho e kīia nei ko te caldillo, e whakakotahi ana i te katoa ki ngā kaiparau rākau nunui.
I hangaia te rare pakaru-rekoata i tētahi papa ātea i Guatemala City i te 24 o Oketopa, tata tonu ki ngā rā e kainga ai e ngā tāngata o Guatemala te fiambre, i te 1 me te 2 o Noema.
He rare mātao te fiambre, e kī ana i te tekau mā rua kai rerekē, ā, kua hangaia e ngā whānau puta noa i Guatemala ō rātou momo ake mō ngā whakatipuranga. E kīia ana i tīmata te tikanga nei i te wā i mauria mai ai ngā kai rerekē e ngā whānaunga ki te toha i ngā urupā o ō rātou tīpuna, ā, i mutu i te whakakotahi i te katoa ki tētahi rare nui kotahi.
I kī a Susana Reyes, te kaiwhakatau mō Guinness World Records, he wheako tino mīharo te mātakitaki i te whakamātau. I kī a Juan José Gutierrez Herrarte, te kaiwhakahaere hokohoko mō Toledo Alimentos, nui ake te kaupapa i te kai anake. “Mō Toledo, he nui ake te fiambre i tētahi rīhi o te wā: ko te whānau, ko te kotahitanga, me te whakamanamana ki tā tātou ake,” tāna i kī.
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