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.

Related Articles Huawei Pura 70 Ultra: The new smartphone has the world's best camera? India's PM Modi casts his vote in world's largest elections Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan's congratulatory message on World Press Freedom Day TAO Observatory: World's highest telescope to study evolution of galaxies and exoplanets Finance minister, World Bank official discuss launch of new bank-assisted programs in Armenia The threat of genocide is still present in the world – MFA of Armenia French and Armenians are forever connected: Macron India starts voting in world's largest election Armenia premier receives OSCE Minsk Group French Co-Chair PM Pashinyan, French Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group address regional issues