The residents of
Bradley County decided to don a Chef’s cap and gloves. This time it was not for the mere purpose of
cooking alone but to display your cookery skills before the world. The residents
set a world record. And what was the recipe that made the venture an instant
hit. They made the largest BLT Sandwich. Do not be puzzled by the letters BLT.
The letters mean bacon, lettuce and tomatoes. All the three ingredients would make
a sandwich just too yummy to resist eating it.
They prepared a 169
ft long sandwich by adding 60 pounds of sliced Bradley tomatoes, 300 pounds of Arkansas Tyson Bacon
and 80 pounds of lettuce. The sandwich took
nearly two hours to build and contained about 300 pounds of bacon, 80 pounds of
lettuce, 60 pounds of tomatoes and 220 ounces of mayonnaise.
The Bradley County Tomato Festival is one of the oldest continuous festivals in
the state of Arkansas. During the festival
everyone get together to dance happily on the streets. The festival has
something concrete to satisfy everyone. It has shopping, food, games , music
and you name anything it has got to be a part of the celebration there.
Farmers in Bradley County have been raising tomatoes for sale since the 1920s.
They chose a variety of tomato that would ship well if picked when the tops of
the fruit just barely turned pink. In 1956, a group of Warren merchants decided
to host an event to celebrate the tomato industry and to help promote business
in the area. The Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival was born. It has since become
a major summertime event.
David
King the director of the chamber of Commerce said that Arkansas deserved to be
famous for the largest BLT more than
anything else. King added that if a culinary school could set a record taking a tomatoes connection then Arkansas
which is touted to be the Tomato capital of the world should certainly have a world
record to boast highlighting on Tomatoes. This feeling steered them to work
towards the record and accomplish it
successfully.
They
actually planned for 160 ft but since
they had the tables for 9 ft more they stretched the length of the BLT
Sandwich also .The final output measured a staggering 169 ft. King challenged
that if anyone wanted to break their record then they need to go still farther
ahead. The chamber sold some of the record
sandwich in 6-inch segments after it was completed. David King said the
record also helped bolster the 53rd annual Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival.
Bradley County Cooperative Extension Service Family and Consumer Science
Agent Michelle Carter, one of the volunteers, said she would remember being a
part of the record.
The Largest BLT Sandwich measured 169 ft and was set by the
residents of Bradley county at Warren, Arkansas, United States of America
on July 1, 2009.
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