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From: "MARTY HARRISON" mharriso AT iland DOT net
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:11:12 -0500
Subject: FW: Fwd: What a waste of good chocolate!!!
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----- Original message -----
From: "Mark R. Clark‎" ,
To: "'MARTY HARRISON'‎" ,
Subject: FW: Fwd: What a waste of good chocolate!!!
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:47:02 -0500

Too cool! I would have to take a bite out of it though….LOL!

v/r Mark









A train made entirely of chocolate has set a new Guinness
World Record as the longest chocolate structure in the world.





The sculpture, on display at the busy Brussels South station,
is 112-feet (34.05 meters) long and weighs over 2,755 pounds
(1250 kilos).



Maltese chocolate artist Andrew Farrugia spent over 700 hours
constructing the masterpiece.



He said he came up with the idea of the train last year after
visiting the Belgian Chocolate Festival in Bruge: "I had this
idea for a while, and I said what do you think if we do this
realisation of a long chocolate train, you know, because a
train you can make it as long as you like.


"Actually it was going to be much smaller than it was, but I
kept on adding another wagon, and another wagon, and it's the
size it is today."


Farrugia had previously built a smaller train of 12 feet for
an event in Malta, which he said gave him insight about how
to build this much larger version.


There are two parts to the train. The first seven wagons are
modelled after the new Belgian trains, and the rest of the
train is modelled after the old train wagons, including a
wagon with a bar and restaurant on board.


Three days before the event, Farrugia transported the
chocolate train by truck in 25 wooden boxes from Malta to
Belgium.


Farrugia said the train incurred considerable damage during
the drive and several of the train's walls had completely
collapsed. Luckily, with hard work and little sleep, the
chocolate artist was able to fix all the damages before
presenting the train to the public on Monday.


After measuring the length of the train and confirming no
material other than chocolate was used, officials from the
Guinness Book of World Records added a new category to the
collection of world records and declared the train to be the
longest chocolate structure in the world.




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