/ 1 October 2007

Spanish town tosses world’s biggest salad

A town in southern Spain on the weekend tossed what local officials said was the world’s largest salad, involving 6 700kg of lettuce, tomato, onion, pepper and olives.

It took 20 cooks over three hours to mix all the ingredients needed to make the salad in the town of Pulpi in the province of Almeria, one of Spain’s main fruit and vegetable growing areas.

“Excellent coordination since the beginning made it possible to meet this challenge,” said Lorenzo Navarro, the head of the Association of Businessmen and Storekeepers of Pulpi, which organised the event.

The salad will be distributed to restaurants in Pulpi who will provide it for free to their clients, he told reporters.

A Guinness World Records judge was on hand to confirm that the salad had set a new record, Spanish media reported. — AFP