Patissier Paul Veldt and his team needed three weeks to prepare the impressive record slof. “We had to do it all extra, in addition to the existing work.”
De Slof was on the occasion of 750 years of market rights for Beverwijk. A lady was impressed: “Someone had to remove all the crowns from the strawberries. You can’t just put them down.”
3400 pieces
The record was 121.88 meters from a baker in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris. Paul and his team pulverized that record, with a shoe of 164, 53 meters. Unfortunately it does not yield a place in Guinness World Records: the attempt is not officially registered.
Nobody seemed to bother in Beverwijk: the evidence for the longest strawberry shoe ever was cut into around 3400 pieces. In no time there was nothing left of it,