This 55-Meter Steam Train Is the World’s Longest Chocolate Sculpture
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Andrew Farrugia, a Maltese chocolatier with multiple world records under his belt, recently set a new Guinness record for the world’s longest chocolate sculpture. He and his team of students from Malta’s Institute of Tourism Studies created a 55.27-meter-long chocolate train made up of a vintage steam engine and 22 chocolate carts weighing around 160 kilograms (352 pounds) each.
Photo: Guinness World Records
The world’s longest chocolate sculpture was unveiled in Milan ahead of this year’s Winter Olympic Games, but Farrugia and his team had been working on it for months. The planning alone took about a year, but Farrugia started working on it in October of last year, creating clay models of each train component.
About 5,000 individual chocolate pieces had to be cut or sculpted in Bergamo, Italy, before being wrapped in plastic and carefully shipped to Milan, where Farrugia’s team spent days putting them together in time for the Winter Olympic Games.
“If I had to calculate, more or less we had 5,000 pieces – all hand cut, and, around 180 wheels for the wagons alone,” Andrew Farrugia told Guinness World Records. “With this record, I wanted to leave a legacy to my institute, my country, and my family.”
At 55.27 meters long, the world’s longest chocolate sculpture is longer than the length of an Olympic swimming pool and almost matches the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passenger jet. Sadly, after being exposed outdoors for several weeks, the massive chocolate train is no longer edible. Now that the Olympic Games have concluded, parts of the sculpture will be melted for training, and other used as animal feed.
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