See’s Candies creates 7,000-pound lollipop; world’s largest

 

The world-record lollipop (Facebook)See's Candies marked National Lollipop Day by crafted the world's largest lollipop, standing nearly six feet tall, 3 feet six inches wide, and weighing 7,003 pounds.

The chocolate-flavored lollipop was constructed at the company's factory in Burlingame, California, before being displayed in San Francisco on July 20. The lollipop also includes an 11-foot 10-inch stick, though the Guinness Book of World Records did not include it in the final calculations.

On See's Facebook page, you can see several photos of the lollipop's construction along with some interesting statistics. For example, the lollipop weighs about three times as much as the average car and is six inches taller than the average height of an American woman.

The Tootsie Roll brand ran a famous advertisement claiming it took three licks to get to the center of its pops. How long do you think it would take to finish this 7,000-pound monstrosity? And if you need something to wash down all that chocolate, you can sip on the six-foot five-inch, 71-gallon daiquiri, which was recently created in Cuba to honor the birthday of Ernest Hemingway.

 

The world-record See's lollipop on display (Facebook)

Read More

21-pound lobster caught off coast of Cape Cod; fate uncertain

Elise Costa holds the 21-pound-lobster (Elise Costa/WBZ)It's not the largest lobster on record, but a giant 21-pound lobster caught off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., has claws nearly a foot long.

"I had its tail on my shoulder and I had each claw in one of my hands, and it was as long as my arms and as big as my torso, " said Elise Costa, restaurant manager of Capt'n Elmer's, to WBZ NewsRadio. "It's giant."

Back in February, a 27-pound-lobster was caught off the coast of Maine, setting the record for the largest known lobster in the state's history. Elaine Jones, education director for the state's Department of Marine Resources told Reuters that its claws were big enough to snap a man's arm. "All the weight is in the claws," Jones said. "It would break your arm."
Maine state law prohibits fisherman from keeping lobsters longer than five inches. So, the 40-inch behemoth, described as roughly being the size of a 3-year-old human baby, was returned safely to the ocean waters.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest lobster in history was caught off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1977 and weighed 44 pounds.
However, because it was caught in an unrestricted area, the fate of the 21-pound Cape Cod lobster remains uncertain.

"Usually, for every four and a half pounds of live lobster, once you cook it and clean it, you get one pound of meat. So 21 divided by four and a half, that would give you about five pounds of meat," Costa said, in what could be a foreboding analysis of the crustacean's fate.

Costa said the lobster would remain on display for a few days before either being sold or raffled for charity. A benevolent benefactor seems to be the lobster's last hope for survival.

"Often when we have lobsters this large, people come in to catch them, and they like to release them, which is kinda cool," Costa told WBZ.

Original Post Found Here..

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/21-pound-lobster-caught-off-coast-maine-fate-231245251.html 

Read More