Record-breaking cheeseburger weighs 691 kg!
Washington:A US restaurant chain has bagged the Guinness World Record for creating the largest cheese sculpture after carving a 45 inches tall cheeseburger that weighed a whopping 691 kg from a hefty block of cheese.
Pro cheese carver Troy Landwehr created the edible artwork which measured 114.3 cm (45 in) tall by 96.52 cm (38 in) in diameter out of a 907.2 kg block of aged Wisconsin cheddar. The final piece weighed a whopping 691.27 kg, breaking the previous record of 419.57 kg that was achieved by Sarah Kaufmann (US) in 2011. Taking over 30 hours to create, the model was shaped entirely from one block of cheese, with no internal support structure.
Landwehr also moulded a separately-attached pickle which was not included in the closing weigh-in. “As we approached the one-year anniversary of the introduction of cheeseburgers we wanted to pay homage to all things cheesy – and put a smile on our fans’ faces – on our favourite holiday by breaking this record,” said Jonathan Kaufman, Founder and CEO of The Melt.
The burger was unveiled at Los Angeles’ shopping and entertainment complex the Hollywood and Highland Center where official Guinness World Records adjudicator Michael Empiric was in attendance to confirm the record and present a certificate. (PTI)
Early Australians fought giant killer lizards
Sydney: During the last Ice Age, Australia’s first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards, reveals new research that unearthed fossils of giant killer lizards.
The researchers used radiocarbon and uranium thorium techniques to date the fossils as about 50,000 years old, coinciding with the arrival of Australia’s Aboriginal inhabitants.The findings suggest that humans may have driven these killer lizards to extinction.
“Our jaws dropped when we found a tiny fossil from a giant lizard during a two metre deep excavation in one of the Capricorn Caves, near Rockhampton,” said one of the researchers Gilbert Price from University of Queensland.
“The one-centimetre bone, an osteoderm, came from under the lizard’s skin and is the youngest record of a giant lizard on the entire continent,” he noted.
Price said massive lizards and even nine-metre long inland crocodiles roamed Australia during the last Ice Age in the Pleistocene geological period.
“It has been long-debated whether or not humans or climate change knocked off the giant lizards,” he said.”Humans can only now be considered as potential drivers of their extinction,” he noted.
The research was published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. (IANS)
Indian man stabbed by Filipino over ‘stinky’ shoes
Milan:An Indian man was stabbed by his Filipino flatmate over his “stinking” shoes, the Milan police said, adding the 19-year-old jobless attacker was arrested.
The 47-year-old man, identified only as A.S., is still in a critical condition. He was taken to Milan’s Niguarda hospital where he underwent surgery and suffered four heart attacks. The man was found by police in a pool of blood at the untidy flat with deep stab wounds to his chest and an arm.
The Filipino, Renzo Micalat, who was hiding in the attic, had allegedly rinsed the blood off the knife used in the attack, and was trying to change his blood-stained clothes when police arrived. (IANS)
