Although new records are created every other day, it is only some that are larger than life. Just like this mosaic art in Mexico, which is made with several loaves of bread. Oh yes, you read that right. And the best part is that this artwork made it to the Guinness World Records recently.
What’s new record all about, you ask? Well, this record was achieved in Mexico’s Puebla region, where several bakers belonging to the Zacatlan municipality joined hands to bake numerous loaves of bread. Using up to 21k pieces of conchas, the artwork set a new record for the world’s largest bread mosaic. For the unversed, concha is a type of Mexican sweet bread that is shaped like a shell.
After a whole lot of patience and burning of the midnight oil, the bakers took approximately two weeks to bake these conchas to be able to create the magical art for a world record. According to the caption of the post shared on the official Instagram handle of the Guinness World Records, “The mosaic made of 20,689 pieces of bread measured 206.44 square metres (2222 sq ft)”. Interestingly, the day this world record was made was on the day when the dead are celebrated in the country. Every year, November 1 and 2 are marked as Dia de los Muertos or the ‘day of the dead’, and it is said that the bread mosaic also resembled the skeleton figure of La Catrina, an icon used as a symbol for this day in Mexico.
However, this isn’t the first time that a food-based world record has been set. Earlier too, an ice cream shop in Arizona broke records for serving about 266 milkshake flavours in less than an hour’s time. In fact, a US-based food company celebrated their golden jubilee this year by making a gigantic bowl of mac and cheese in three hours and it set a new record for the world to break.