My friend Alvina sent this to me.
This is something for all you chocolate lovers. The level of detail is
pretty amazing.
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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