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July 20, 2010
A worthy world record
2009YIP/26 Curly Fries, originally uploaded by angelsk.
I love curly fries. The way they crinkle, the way you can dunk one in a cup of ketchup and get a big dab of the red stuff, like a paint brush. It's magnificent.
I especially love getting the long ones, when the curl goes for ever, and I have to tilt my head to the side and hold the fry from above to get it into my mouth. Those are the best, but as any seasoned french fry consumer knows, those are hard to come by.
However, a hot dog stand in dear old Buffalo has outdone itself. That's right, it may have unintentionally produced the world's longest french fry:
John Benbenek was eating lunch at Taffy's Hot Dog Stand the other day when he grabbed a french fry from a pile of curly fries and pulled.
And pulled. And pulled some more.
When he was done, Benbenek had a 34-inch french fry — nearly 3 feet of golden, crispy tastiness — that he believes sets the record for longest fry.
“I’m pulling it out, and it’s half the size of me,” Benbenek said.
Benbenek and co-worker Ryan Vedder, who was also at Taffy’s, want to sell the fry on eBay, and they say Guinness World Records wants to verify its length.
And the two men say Jay Leno plans to talk to them via satellite from Taffy’s for Wednesday’s “Tonight Show.”
“It’s crazy,” said Richard Eliah, Taffy’s owner.
This is worthy of a Keanu Reeves style "whoaaah." I am heartily impressed these people were able to resist doing what I would have done, which is eating that damn french fry right then and there. However, as the article describes, they instead smuggled the fry out of the restaurant - because it is now a valuable commodity, which they expect to sell on eBay for "thousands of dollars."
Now this thing is really cool, I have to say. It's nice for Buffalo to get some recognition. But who would pay thousands of dollars, let alone a hundred bucks, for this? I could see this fry winding up on Pawn Stars, where the old man offers to buy it for 50 cents and a ticket to the buffet at Sam's Town.
entry no. 1488
Posted at July 20, 2010 03:48 PM
Comments
this is the record holder john benbenek here.. we have contacted pawn stars and spoke to jason and he had no interest but we tried... lol.. thanks for covering our story we appreciate it... Fry Guys Out!!!!
Posted by: john benbenek at July 22, 2010 01:16 PM
this is the record holder john benbenek here.. we have contacted pawn stars and spoke to jason and he had no interest but we tried... lol.. thanks for covering our story we appreciate it... Fry Guys Out!!!!
Posted by: john benbenek at July 22, 2010 01:16 PM