Chicago - Chefs at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago tried to build a record-setting stack of pancakes on Tuesday, but the wiggling, wobbling stack of flapjacks refused to stay put.
Organizers wanted to nab a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, but after nearly an hour of work - and the help of some extra-long toothpicks - the crumbling stack of buttermilk pancakes never made it past 41 centimetres.
The tallest recorded pancake stack was made in France in 2003 and measured in at 70 centimetres tall, said Lynne Fotias, a spokesperson for Disney on Ice, which co-sponsored the event with the culinary school. That tower used 980 pancakes.
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A spokesperson for the Guinness Book of World Records did not immediately return a call for comment.
Montanile said the school made 400 pancakes for the event, but discovered the breakfast staples' inconsistent width, weight and height made them architecturally unsound. - Sapa-AP
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