Elizabeth Hernandez started out cynical, progressed into sarcastic but finished her assignment enthusiastic. Her story? The breaking of the Guinness World Record of tallest waffle stack.
She documented the experience on Twitter yesterday, and you can feel the emotion in each set of 280 characters as the stack she was watching grew to 67 centimeters tall, 16 centimeters more than the previous record had achieved, according to Hernandez.
23-year-old Spencer McCullough and a group of friends took 50 pounds of waffle mix and set to work. Once it was made, each waffle was broiled to achieve a brick-like solidity (for maximum stacking efficiency, I presume).
“I’m most excited that everyone got what they came for. I feel like I delivered,” McCullough told Hernandez.
This story definitely errs on the side of unique for Hernandez given her typical beat: her portfolio with the Denver Post shows that she’s covered topics like police activity and dangerous weather patterns. Waffle stacking fits somewhere in there, right?
Before they could load up, Guinness required an official land purveyor and leveling device to officially attempt to break the record.
The group was subtle about their plot, simply taping a handwritten note to their door announcing that there was a “waffle world record attempt out back,” but they nevertheless found some strangers in their backyard responding to a Facebook post about the event that promised pancakes for breakfast.
A bit more goes into it for McCullough, though -- he hopes to help small businesses break records aligned with their brands as a career path. The waffles were just a practice run.
Read Hernandez’s thrill ride of a story here, and keep your eyes peeled for the next feat McCullough tackles -- or the official declaration of a broken record from Guinness.