Croatian village breaks record with 3km strudel chain
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A total of 8,940 strudels were made, measuring slightly more than 3km, and bagging a new world record for a village in Croatia.
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JASKOVO, Croatia - With tonnes of flour and apples, a Croatian village on Sept 6 made it into the Guinness World Records with a line of strudels stretching more than 3km.
Two tonnes of flour and three tonnes of apples were used for the world’s longest line of strudels – baked pastry desserts – in the small village of Jaskovo, organisers said.
“After very rigorous verification and counting, I can announce that a total of 8,940 strudels was achieved, which means that’s a new Guinness World Record title,” said Ms Paulina Sapinska, a Guinness World Records adjudicator, after the measurement.
The line of strudels was 3,136m long.
During the village’s traditional Strudelfest, the strudels, made following a regional recipe, were laid in line by locals and volunteers.
“They’ve been working so hard,” said Ms Monika Ivis, one of several thousand visitors to the event.
“They taste super,” she told AFP.
“Strudel is a symbol linked with local tradition,” regional mayor Martina Furdek Hajdin said earlier, adding that such events helped boost the rural region’s development.
The strudels used to break the record will be donated to various institutions, organisations and people in need.
Jaskovo, 66km south-west of Zagreb, already claimed the world record a decade ago. On that occasion, it recorded a 1,479m-long line of strudels.
The previous record from 2019 was held by the Croatian town of Sisak where the line of nearly 6,000 strudels measured more than 1,762m. AFP
