The world's longest hot dog is a world record dating back to at least 2001. The record supposedly was most recently beaten in October 2017 in the town of Flensburg in Germany, where a group manufactured and served a U-shaped hot dog with a length of 218.7 metres (718 ft). However this attempt was not a valid one apparently, as it consisted of multiple pieces of bread and sausages instead of one of each.[1] In the official page of Guinness World Records the current holder of the record is Novex S.A. done in Paraguay in July 2011.[2][3]
In Chile, the city of Talca made an unofficial attempt where they tried the longest "completo", a Chilean upgraded version of the hot dog, where they reached over 450 metres by placing 2400 completos in a row. Sadly it became a meme in the country as it wasn't a single unit.[4]
- ^ "Längstes Hot-Dog der Welt". DEHOGA Kreisverband Schleswig-Flensburg (in German). 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ "Longest hot dog". December 3, 2023.
- ^ "En Paraguay preparan Hot dog de 200 metros". The clinic. 15 July 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ^ Iporre, Nicole (2023-11-21). "La razón por la que el completo "más largo del mundo" en Talca eran varios completos separados y no uno entero". La Tercera. Retrieved 2023-12-03.