Food, glorious food: Unusual world records

A volunteer mixes vegetables to create the world's biggest vegetable salad during a Guinness World Record attempt in Pantelimon, near Bucharest, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A Palestinian pours sugar syrup on a large tray of "knafeh", a sweetened goat cheese pastry that weighs 1,765kg and measures 74m long during an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records in the West Bank city of Nablus, July 18, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Cooks prepare the world's biggest green salad before entering in the Guinness World Records during an event in the Spanish southern village of Pulpi, Sept 29, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Indian women use rolling pins to prepare a large-sized poori (deep-fried flat brown bread) during a poori making competition in Bombay, Nov 6, 2001. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Lebanese prepare the world's largest portion of the traditional minced meat dish Kebbeh at a festival in Ehden in northern Lebanon, Aug 29, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Steve 'The Grape Guy' Spalding catches grapes in his mouth during his successful world record attempt in Sydney, Nov 16, 2006. Spalding successfully caught 1203 grapes in his mouth in 30 minutes, that were thrown from a distance of 4.57m. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Children collect Easter eggs in a park in Brussels, April 8, 2012, during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest Easter egg hunt. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Jordanian chefs decorate the world's biggest falafel, after an Guinness World Records official announces a new record set, at Landmark hotel in Amman, July 28, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Visitors try a cappuccino coffee from a giant cup in Moscow, March 25, 2004. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

The Frozen Haute Chocolate is unveiled at the Serendipity-3 restaurant in New York, Nov 7, 2007 after Guiness World Records researchers determined the US$25,000 frozen hot chocolate was the most expensive dessert in the world. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Bakers prepare part of a 75m long chocolate salami, May 31, 2001. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Chef Manuel Blanco, 32, tastes a 1,700kg Paella cooked in a 2.8m pan, March 8. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Ettore Diana (left) and Luca Braguti sip cappuccino's in front of the biggest cappuccino in the world, Jan 29, 2002 in Verona. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Chefs cook an omelette during a Guinness World Records attempt for the world's largest omelette in Ankara, Oct 8, 2010. The Turkish Egg Producers Association celebrated World Egg Day on Friday with an attempt to cook the world's largest omelette weighing 6 tonnes with a total of 432 litres of oil and 110,000 eggs used. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A man prepares to barbecue beef to create the "Biggest Barbeque in the World" in General Pico, March 20, 2011. In the attempt to obtain the Guinness World Record for the  Biggest Barbeque in the World, about 30,000 people took part of the event where 13,713kg of beef were grilled by more than 80 participants. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman steps into a swimming pool with some 20,000 apples in it during a photo session in an attempt to set the national record for "The Most Number of Apples Used In Spa Therapy" in Port Dickson, 120km south of Kuala Lumpur, May 13, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A cheesemaker works to produce a 783.6m long interlaced mozzarella in the southern Italian village of Frosolone, 100km east of Naples, July 29, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Renowned "Karat chef" Angelito Araneta Jr. places African diamonds on top of pearls to re-create his Guiness World Record for most expensive sushi in Manila, April 1, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS