Hi, everyone, The pizza story was on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the headline: Naples: Home of pizza smashes record with mile-long margherita
The rest of the article was all in metres: The record-breaking snack measured up at exactly 1,853.88 metres, smashing the previous record of 1,595.45 metres set at last year's World Expo in Milan… and included a metric list of ingredients: Hundreds of chefs from all over the world spent most of Wednesday (local time) assembling the pizza from raw ingredients of 2,000 kilograms of flour, 1,600kg of tomatoes, 2,000kg of mozzarella cheese, 200 litres of oil and 30kg of basil. Read the story at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-20/naples-reclaims-world-record-with-mile-long-pizza/7430784 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-20/naples-reclaims-world-record-with-mile-long-pizza/7430784> The aerial photo of the pizza showing its length is amazing. As we say in Australia: Have a good week-end! Best wishes, Peter Goodyear > On 20 May 2016, at 16:44, Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > A picture of the pizza is at > http://tg24.sky.it/tg24/cronaca/photogallery/2016/05/18/napoli-pizza-record-guinness.html. > When I worked in Rome a number of years ago, I would occasionally buy some > pizza from a fast-food pizza outlet. The pizzas were often over a square > metre, you bought a piece which was priced by the kilogram. > > -----Original Message----- > From: USMA [mailto:usma-boun...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of James > Sent: 20 May 2016 01:58 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA 197] That's a pizza! > > According to > http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/19/italian-chefs-set-new-guinness-world-record-with-pizza-over-mile-long/?intcmp=hphz14 > a new Guiness Book world record was set in Napoli IT when a pizza "measuring > 1853.88 m (6082 ft)" was made. > > I've eaten more than one pizza in Napoli, but never one that large. No width > was given in the article or the embedded YouTube video. The article does list > the ingredients, though, with the flour, tomato sauce, and cheese amounts > given in pounds and the olive oil in liters. The figures given in pounds > obviously were converted from figures given in kilograms or metric tons and > that were more "round". > > Jim > > -- > James R. Frysinger > 632 Stoney Point Mountain Road > Doyle TN 38559-3030 > (C) 931.212.0267 > (H) 931.657.3107 > (F) 931.657.3108 > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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