Cooks spoil fried rice record attempt by feeding it to pigs
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A GROUP of chefs and catering students in Yangzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, have been denied a world record for cooking the biggest pot of fried rice after they tipped some of the final dish into a dumpster, in breach of the qualifying criteria.
A spokeswoman for Guinness World Records said yesterday that despite the group producing 4 tons of fried rice, the fact that they threw some of it away meant their efforts had been in vain.
“We held back on the results because we were reviewing the information submitted by the organizers,” Sharon Yang, marketing director for Guinness China, was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
“They admitted that 150 kilograms of the rice was improperly disposed of. Products created in any record attempt involving food must be eaten and not wasted. We have notified the organizers that the record will not stand,” she said.
This decision was made after local media reported that the rice had been used as pig feed.
About 300 people took part in the record attempt on Friday, which involved them producing almost 4.2 tons of fried rice.
It was estimated to have cost them about 140,000 yuan (US$22,000) to make.
However, photos and video clips of the event showed that after the dish was completed, a large amount of it was tossed into a dumpster.
The Yangzhou Tourism Bureau said on Sunday that a lack of oversight had led to some of the mega-meal going to waste.
While the vast majority of the rice went to local canteens, about 150kg ended up as pig swill, it said.
The current world record for the largest dish of fried rice ever produced is held by the Turkey Culinary Federation, which cooked up 3.15 tons of it in September last year.
This year is the 2,500th anniversary of the establishment of Yangzhou and the world record attempt was arranged as part of the celebrations.
Media reports identified the organizer of the event as the World Association of Chinese Cuisine, though local authorities denied any links to it.
“It is a shame to waste food and give it to pigs. Do you know how many people in the mountains don’t have enough rice to eat?” a person wrote on Weibo.
Yang said that Guinness always “take into consideration moral, traditional and religious elements” when approving a record.
“We never accept applications that are against moral standards. On average, we receive about 1,000 applications a week, among which 95 percent are declined,” she said.
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