A hotel in Kovalam has rolled out what it claims to be the world’s tallest sandwich which ultimately ended up as pig meal on Wednesday. The 50 ft high and 2.5 x 2.5 ft wide ‘wonderloaf’ weighing 2,000 kilos was completed by 142 employees of Hotel Uday Samudra in Kovalam in about 8 hours late on Tuesday night.

Current record

The prevailing record for the tallest sandwich is being held by the O’Briens who made a gigantic 42 ft Irish sandwich bar in Cork on April 25, 2003.

The ingredients of the sandwich are eye-popping to say the least, thanks to the variety that marks its making.  You have even dosas, idlis, omelettes and chicken as filling not to speak of the different hues of vegetables used — cucumber (30 kg) carrot (100 kg), onions (200 kg), cabbage (150 kg), tomato (40 kg), beetroot (35 kg), potato (235 kg) and lettuce (1,500 leaves). The other items stuffed included 40 kg of butter, mayyonaise (20 kg), white pepper powder(15 kg), cheese (50 kg), paneer (50 kg), sausage (25 kg), 1000 eggs, maida (1,700 kg), sugar (200 kg), yeast (85 packets), margarin (30 boxes), and salt (40 kg).

Enthusiastic bakers perched on to specially mounted wooden platforms along the sides of the hotel building to create the record-breaking loaf on World Food Day.

Uday Samudra Corporate director Rajagopal Iyer told Deccan Herald: “The event is dedicated to the poor people of India and the revenue out of this will be served to the various poor homes in the city.”

The hotel has already spent Rs 2.24 lakh on the sandwich.

The sandwich was dismantled on Wednesday and supplied to pig farms near the hotel.