To usher in the return of the Big New Yorker – Pizza Hut set to work at the Los Angeles Convention Center crafting a titanic, 68,000 slice pizza.
The secondary motivation for the franchise to devise such a beastly pizza, was the hope to break the world record for the largest ever made.
The pizza-maker team spread about the complex assembling the 13,990 square foot pie in painstaking layers.
They used buckets to pour sauce and toppings, and ladles that reached from the ground to a man standing at full height.
A staggering 13,000+ lbs of dough, almost 5,000 lbs of sauce, 8,800 lbs of cheese, and 630,000 pepperoni went into the “build”.
As for the issue of how it was baked…it took hours, using heat lamps floating just over the pie, in sections, and rotated every so often so as not to miss an inch.
President of Pizza Hut, David Graves said, “Our customers have been begging us to bring back the Big New Yorker for more than two decades, so we knew we had to do something big.”
The team had to wait two days for “Guinness” to give their nod of approval and acknowledge that the pie had broken the previous world record of 13,580 square fee. A pizza named, Ottavia and constructed in Rome, in 2012.
If you’re thinking that this pizza stunt was one mountainous waste of resources, ABC 7 reported that it would be cut up and distributed to charities and shelters across the city.
A “side” world record challenge was also at play for the “worlds largest pizza party” that involved both Pizza Hut and Youtuber, Eric ‘Airrack’ Decker collaborating.
Decker was celebrating reaching, 10,000,000 followers on his channel.
It’s unknown at this time, if the second record was broken or not.
