Moscow’s Red Square smelled like a Greek island last month, all because Petros Lambrinidis, a Greek chef from Crete and his 1,200 volunteers set up a feast and managed to make a Greek salad so big, it broke the Guinness World Record.

According to the World Record Academy, Lambrinidis’ salad was not only the largest Greek salad but also the largest salad ever made, at 20 tons.

The Greek chef had announced his intentions earlier in August when he said he would prepare the world’s most gigantic salad on 4 September at the closing of the Savior Tower festival.

The salad ‘bowl’ was nine metres long with a width of three metres and over one metre deep containing seven tons of cucumbers, seven tons of tomatoes, two tons of olives, two and a half tons of feta cheese, half a ton of olive oil, a ton of onions, ten kilograms of salt, ten kilograms of pepper and ten kilograms of oregano.

Petros Lambrinidis was honoured by the Municipality of Melvezi for his achievement and contribution to the promotion of the Greek cuisine.

“I would like to personally congratulate him and wish him health and to continue his inspired creative endeavours,” Mayor of Matlezi, Kostas Mamoulakis said.

Meanwhile, the previous Guinness World Record for the largest Greek salad weighing 13 tons and 417 kilograms was recorded in 19 June 2010 in Ierapetra, Crete.

The largest fruit salad had weighed 8,690 kg (19,158 lb 2.72 oz) and was achieved by Spar Österreichische Warenhandels-AG (Austria) in Vienna, Austria, on 27 June 2014.

 

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