Perhaps it’s no secret to anyone that a lot of people live in the world who are ardent admirers of a wide variety of sweets. Of course, among them there will always be those who simply can not imagine their life without chocolate. This article will discuss the largest delicacy on the planet, which has been repeatedly sung in many tales. We will find out how much the largest chocolate bar in the world weighs, where and who produced it. In general, on an empty stomach, reading this information is strongly discouraged.
general information
About three million cocoa beans are produced on earth annually. It is worth noting that the most expensive and delicious of them grow in South America. The most elite cocoa varieties grow in Ecuador. They create the famous Belgian chocolate called Godiva. But, as time has shown, only by taste, sweetness is not always able to attract the attention of society. That is why many are interested in the world's largest chocolate bar, because size also plays an important role in the perception of things by a person. Simply put, kilograms sometimes prevail over the composition, although this may not be entirely true.
Italian giant
In 2007, on the Iberian Peninsula, one of the first world records was established related to the dimensions of the chocolate creation. The largest chocolate in the world then in Turin was made by local confectioners. Their achievement was almost immediately recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Rivarolo’s culinary experts have managed to create chocolate that is longer than the previous achievement, equal to almost seven meters, and with extreme accuracy, exactly 6.98 meters.
Rivarolo Trading House took the initiative to surpass this figure and involved a local pastry chef named A. Giordano. Its gigantic chocolate bar was documented not only by inspectors of the Book, but also by the head of the city, as well as several hundred local people. Measurements carried out with extreme accuracy, recorded the following dimensions of the chocolate: 11 meters 57 centimeters.
Armenian achievement
Another record in the matter of creating large chocolate bars belongs to the post-Soviet state. Confectioners from Armenia bothered to cast a product from cocoa weighing 4410 kilograms. At the same time, its dimensions were as follows: 586 centimeters in length, 25.4 centimeters in thickness and 110 centimeters in width. As the raw material from which the world's largest chocolate was then made, exclusively cocoa beans from Ghana were used.
Director of the manufacturer Karen Vardanyan then said that the product was created in honor of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the company. A month after making this delicacy, it was divided into numerous parts and distributed to everyone absolutely free in the form of gifts. It is pleasant to realize that at least one country from the former USSR space appears in world champions for creating giant chocolates. Moreover, such famous titans of the chocolate business as Switzerland and Germany are simply not among the world's creators of large tiles, and never have been.
American giant
The world's largest chocolate bar did not last long in the hands of the Armenians. Already in 2011, the United States was able to convincingly break the record. The “Cocoa Drug Dope”, created by American pastry experts, was carefully weighed and showed 5 tons of 574 kilograms and 65 grams. The tile was entered in the Guinness Book of Records, and ultimately several hundred people ate it.
The author of the brainchild was World's Finest Chocolate. At the same time, she tried to set a record not the first time before, but it was on September 13, 2011 that she succeeded. For everyone, chocolate was on display in Chicago, Illinois. In height, it reached 91 centimeters, and in length - 6.4 meters.
The largest chocolate in the world described, the photo of which is shown below, contained 771 kilograms of cocoa butter, 635 kilograms of liquor, 907 kilograms of milk powder, 2494 kilograms of sugar and 544 kilograms of almonds. In a word, a real horror for nutritionists and a holiday for children. By the way, chocolate was transported to American cities under the motto “Think Big. Eat wisely. " After setting this record, active sales of the company soared, as they say, to heaven.
Reigning champion
So, what is the weight of the largest chocolate bar in the world today? This figure is 5792.5 kilograms. This achievement was established in the fall of 2011 and immediately entered into the Guinness World Record Base. The manufacturer of this monster was the British company Thorntons. By its configuration, the chocolate turned out to be square with a side - four meters.
This product in its chocolate equivalent is equal to almost 75 thousand ordinary tiles. Incidentally, the idea to create such a confectionery giant came up with one of the employees of the company, who is an ardent fan of the movie entitled "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".