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Breaking bread: French bakers take back their title for longest baguette, dethroning Italy

Breaking bread: French bakers take back their title for longest baguette, dethroning Italy

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Africanews
Published on 2024-05-06 15:01:12

After being dethroned by Italy in 2019, French bakers took back the title for “world’s longest baguette” with a loaf that measured over 140 metres.

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Five years ago, the unthinkable happened – France lost its title for longest baguette in the world. To Italy, no less.

On Sunday, that tragedy was remedied, as bakers in Suresnes, a suburb northwest of Paris, reclaimed their birthright with a baguette worth writing home about.

The baguette, measuring 140.53 metres, was registered in the Guinness World Records as the new record-holder for longest loaf. It was prepared in front of an audience at the Suresnes Baguette Show, an event organised by the National Confederation of French Boulangerie-Pâtisserie and…

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