SOUTH Africa broke the Guinness world record by creating the longest standing salad on Saturday, SABC radio news reported. Sixty volunteers participated in the event in Kyalami, East of Johannesburg on Saturday morning. The salad stood at 200 metres. A salad bar created in New York in 1999 was only 158.43 metres. Four hundred kilograms of lettuce, onions, tomatoes and cucumber was used. Organiser of the event, Dawid Muller, said the salad roll would be donated to Meals on Wheels in Gauteng. – Sapa
Friday February 1, 2001