French bakers bake 140.53m baguette, break Italians’ world record

For the past five years, bragging rights over the world’s longest baguette have belonged not to the residents of a small village or a city in France, but rather to a clutch of bakers 500 miles away in Como, Italy, reports The Guardian.A crop of 12 bakers from France on Sunday set out to rectify this, spending hours kneading, shaping and baking their way back to victory.

Some 14 hours later, their efforts were declared a success. “The world record for the longest baguette has been broken,” the municipality of Suresnes, in the western suburbs of Paris, wrote on its social media account. “The baguette made today in Suresnes measures 140.53m!!!!”

The bakers had begun toiling at 3am in the hope of beating the standing record of 132.62 meters.

Although about 320 baguettes are thought to be sold every second in France, the 2019 feat by Italy was not the first time the country had laid claim to the title of longest baguette; in 2015 a 122-meter baguette baked at the Milan Expo was certified as record-breaking.