This is an ostrich (Picture: MikeLane45/File)

Iran failed on Friday to set the record for the world’s largest sandwich, after onlookers ate the evidence.

Event organisers had planned to stuff the 1,500 metre-long sandwich with 700kg of ostrich meat and 700kg of chicken, and display it in a park in the capital Tehran.

But, as the sandwich was being measured, chaos ensued as spectators rushed forward and started eating it.

The giant snack was gone in minutes, a Reuters witness said, leaving the three Guinness Book of World Records representatives present with a dilemma.


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One of the event’s organisers said video footage of the sandwich would be sent to Guinness officials.



‘We still think the sandwich will be recorded in the Guinness book because of all the evidence and footage that we will send them,’ Parvin Shariati said.

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