April 12, 2013: Chocolate Train

jimhelm · 04-12-2013, 08:46 AM

Some stay dry and others feel the pain...

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New Guinness Record Category. Largest Chocolate Structure.

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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 realization 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 modeled after the new Belgian trains, and the rest of the train is modeled 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.

Sundae · 04-12-2013, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by jimhelm

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

Does this make the train a Malteser?!

xoxoxoBruce · 04-12-2013, 11:05 AM

Nice, Jim, now I'm hungry.

CaliforniaMama · 04-12-2013, 10:57 PM

What's next, the largest Maltese Falcon?

xoxoxoBruce · 04-12-2013, 10:59 PM

If it's chocolate, I'm all for it.

elSicomoro · 04-13-2013, 03:03 AM

Well I for one am glad the subject line matched the material...

jimhelm · 04-13-2013, 10:43 AM

chocolate tunnel!

elSicomoro · 04-13-2013, 12:07 PM

There's a band from the UK I like whose name happens to be Fudge Tunnel.

jimhelm · 04-13-2013, 03:20 PM

Yeah, they stink.

richlevy · 04-14-2013, 07:10 PM

Where's Don Cornelius when you need him....

Yeah, I know...politically incorrect. If you're over 45 and living in the US, tell me you weren't thinking this.....

SPUCK · 04-15-2013, 06:03 AM

So does this mean I can unwrap 300 Hersey bars and lean them end to end to have a 113 foot Guinness record?

04-12-2013, 11:05 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Nice, Jim, now I'm hungry. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-12-2013, 10:57 PM	#4
CaliforniaMama I wonder . . . Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Left Coast, a pretty good place to be. Posts: 1,278	What's next, the largest Maltese Falcon? __________________ Take time for silence. You never know what you might hear.

04-12-2013, 10:59 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	If it's chocolate, I'm all for it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-13-2013, 10:43 AM	#7
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	chocolate tunnel! __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

04-13-2013, 03:20 PM	#9
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Yeah, they stink. __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

04-13-2013, 03:03 AM	#6
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Well I for one am glad the subject line matched the material...

04-13-2013, 12:07 PM	#8
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	There's a band from the UK I like whose name happens to be Fudge Tunnel.

04-14-2013, 07:10 PM	#10
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Where's Don Cornelius when you need him.... Yeah, I know...politically incorrect. If you're over 45 and living in the US, tell me you weren't thinking this..... __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

04-15-2013, 06:03 AM	#11
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	So does this mean I can unwrap 300 Hersey bars and lean them end to end to have a 113 foot Guinness record?

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