A taco 164 feet, 10 inches long, cooked up at the Taco and Mariachi Festival in Mexico City, unofficially became the world’s biggest ever taco, surpassing a 134-foot-long taco cooked up at the same event last year.
The festival, which continues through Oct. 1, is held in Plaza Garibaldi. The taco record was broken by a team of more than 100 cooks who filled the gigantic corn tortilla with onions, rice, cilantro, pork cracklings, beef, chicken, eggs and sausage.
Once the cooking was completed, to the accompaniment of mariachi music, the crowd got to sample the “macro taco,” as it was dubbed, for free.
The culinary feat could not be registered in the Guinness Book of Records because there was not enough money to do so, according to festival officials.
To register a feat for the record book requires a fee of close to $33,000. “We cannot contemplate that now,” a festival official said.
However, the government plans to jump on the taco record with the message that “Mexico is a captivating country with a rich and varied gastronomy, among many other attractions.”