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A
train made entirely of chocolate has set a new Guinness World Record as
the longest chocolate structure in the world...
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.
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