▲Thousands of people gathered to create the traditional Chinese sticky rice bundles at the same time and set the Guinness World Record of most people making Zongzi at the same time.

▲And they did it, thousands of empanadas and pizzas later.

▲Volunteers from a culinary school in Concepcion de Buenos Aires, Mexico, got together to cut open tons of avocados, which probably set a record of its own.

▲Argentine chefs rallied together in Buenos Aires to attempt a very specific record of the largest number of pizzas and empanadas prepared in 12 hours.

▲And then they mashed them, hundreds of them. It definitely looks like a workout in and of itself!

▲A table measuring 401.2 m aimed to break the Guinness World Record in France, at the 2019 Rungis International Food Market.

▲Bosnian chefs cooked up “Bey’s Broth” in a 2.5 m diameter pot in Sarajevo. It weighed 4,124 kg (9092 lbs), and included one ton of poultry, 350 kg (772 lbs) of vegetables, 120 litres of oil, 100 kg (220 lbs) of flour, 50 kg (110 lbs) of butter, as well as milk, eggs, and cream.

▲They then served the world’s largest portion of guacamole that would make any millennial tremble.

▲Batroun, in northern Lebanon, holds the Guinness World Record for displaying around 2,600 kg (5,732 lbs) of fresh fish.

▲More than 80 people worked on creating the biggest chocolate coin in Caracas, using 100% Venezuelan cacao, which is said to have weighed 1,000 kg (2,205 lbs).

▲Dranik is a potato pancake and the national dish of Belarus. They tried to set a record for the largest dranik in Sula back in 2016.

▲People created a 2-meter-wide dranik on a makeshift outdoor frying pan, and topped it in bacon.

▲In Yangzhou, China, a total of 4,192 kg (9,242 lbs) of fried rice was cooked and set a new Guinness World Record.

▲The event was reportedly aiming to promote the dish as a local delicacy rather than a dare-food for tourists.

▲Chefs prepared loads of tacos of cochinita pibil, which is a popular dish from Yucatan, in Guadalajara, 2015.

▲In Shanghai, China, 511 people gathered to set a new Guinness World Record for the number of people tossing pizza dough at the same time.

▲They broke the Guinness World Record for longest taco, with a length of 2.5 km!

▲Balut is a Philippine delicacy made with boiled duck embryo, and chefs from the Center for Culinary Art Manila made a record 117.5 kg (259 lbs) of the dish in 2015.

▲Chefs put together the world’s largest serving of this popular Egyptian dish in Cairo, 2015.

▲They use four tons of pork, 36,000 tortillas, and loads of spices to put together 325 taco servings.

▲After breaking the Guinness World Record for the biggest sushi mosaic in Hong Kong, the sushi was distributed for free to the public.

▲More than 1,000 participants joined to created a seven-layer mosaic measuring 480 sq m (5,167 sq ft) in Ludhiana, India. It used about 19,825 kg (43,706 lbs) of vegetables!

▲In 2014, this typical Venezuelan Christmas dish was supersized in Caracas, measuring 20 m long and weighing 284 kg (626 lbs).

▲Over 50 Chinese chefs in Costa Rica cooked the world’s largest Cantonese fried rice, weighing 1,345 kg (2,965 lbs), and serving 7,000 people for Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations.

▲A total of 20,647 sushi pieces were assembled and arranged in a 37 sq m (398 sq ft) space to break the record.

▲A chocolate train, measuring 34.05 m (111 ft) and using 1,285 kg (2,832 lbs) of Belgian chocolate, earned artist Andrew Farrugia a Guinness World Record.

▲Romania broke the world record for biggest salad in 2012, which weighed in at 19,050 kg (41,998 lbs)!

▲The salad was reportedly made of about 20 tons of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, carrots, olives, sweet peppers, green salad, olive oil, and salt.

▲It weighed six tons and used 432 L of oil and 110,000 eggs. A breakfast of champions!

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Renowned "Karat chef" Angelito Araneta Jr. was recognized by Guinness World Records in 2010 for creating the most expensive sushi, at US$1,978.15 for five pieces.

▲Chefs cooked the world’s largest omelette in Ankara, Turkey, to celebrate World Egg Day in 2010.

▲Chefs, citizens, and tourists in Croatia joined forces to attempt the world’s longest gnocchi in 2011.

▲About 30,000 people in General Pico, Argentina, reportedly enjoyed the event where 13,713 kg (30,231 lbs) of beef was grilled in a huge barbeque.

▲Chefs in Ain Saadeh, Lebanon, cooked up an impressive 844,000 falafels in 2010.

▲The world record-breaking dish weighed 5,173 kg (11,400 lbs) and certainly filled many bellies.

▲This enormous take on the national dish made from parsley, tomatoes, mint, onion, and bulgur weighed a whopping 3,577 kg (7,886 lbs).

▲The hummus dish, weighing about 10,452 kg (meant to correspond to the total area of Lebanon, at 10,452 sq km), required seven tons of boiled chickpeas, two tons of tahini, and 700 kg (1,543 lbs) of olive oil.

▲Chefs and culinary students in Manila displayed 5,000 cheese-inspired dishes in 2009, setting a new record for number of dishes on display in a single day.

▲About 10 Israeli chefs prepared a 1.5 m (almost 5 ft) pita bread topped with about 30 kg (66 lbs) of grilled meat. No word on how they managed to eat it.

▲Lebanese chefs achieved Guinness World Records not only for the crazy amount of hummus they made, but also the size of the clay plate they kept it in.

▲Lebanese chefs earned the Guinness World Record for biggest plate of tabbouleh in 2009.

▲Lebanese chefs broke the record for their kibbeh, a traditional minced meat dish, which occupied a space of 20 sq m (215 sq ft), weighed 233 kg (514 lbs) and was made from 120 kg (265 lbs) of ground beef. It took 25 women six hours to prepare.

▲In 2003, chef Othmar Steinhart in Vancouver created a 4.2 m (13.8 ft) cookie using 100 kg (220 lbs) of flour, 20 kg (44 lb) of sugar and 20 L of molasses and butter.

▲This sweetened goat cheese pastry, made in Nablus in 2009, weighed 1,765 kg (3,891 lbs) and measured 74 m (243 ft) long.

▲Peruvian chefs in Lima prepared more than six tons of fish, onion, and lime, winning the Guinness World Record for creating the largest ceviche at 6.8 tons.

▲In Verona, in 2002, Ettore Diana and Luca Braguti brewed the biggest cappuccino in the world, using 1,000 L of milk and 500 L of coffee in a “cup” 2.1 m high and 2 m in diameter.

▲About 400 students from the Malaysian University of Agriculture took 46 minutes and over 10,000 slices of bread to create a sandwich spanning 1 km.

▲Chefs in Bangkok had to use a crane to properly season the record-breaking dish, which required 550 kg (1,212 lbs) of rice, 2,500 eggs, and 125 kg (275 lbs) of chicken.

▲To celebrate "Rice Day," chef Manuel Herrera and his team created a 1,700 kg (3,747 lbs) dish of paella.

▲Portuguese chef Michel da Costa sits at what was declared the world’s longest dinner table, boasting 15,000 seats along 5 km. The guests were fed Portuguese white bean stew for the giant lunch.

▲Mexico City saw the creation of the largest sandwich in the world, weighing an unbelievable 3,178 kg (6,991 lbs).

▲In 2011, Pete Glazebrook officially became the proud owner of the heaviest onion in the world, which weighed in at 8.150 kg (17.967 lbs).

▲In the southern Italian village of Frosolone in 2007, cheesemakers created a 783.6 m (2,571 ft) mozzarella cord.

▲We’re not sure how stiff the competition is for this very niche record, but Madrid set the record using six tons of bananas from the Canary Islands.

▲In 1997, a new record was set for the world’s longest fettuccine in Singapore. It took 40 chefs a total of five days, using 45 L of olive oil, 500 kg (1102 lbs) of flour, and 1,800 eggs to make the 1151.26 m (3777.1 ft) fettuccine.

▲In 2009, student chefs in Mexico City created a two-ton cheesecake with a diameter of 2.5 m, setting a new Guinness World Record and breaking many people’s diets.

▲A cheese record was set in 2002 in Alkmaar, Netherlands, with the enormous Gouda wheel weighing 567 kg (1,250 lbs), and with a diameter of 1.6 m.

▲Beijing saw the creation of the Guinness World Record-breaking ice cream cake in 2006, which was 4.8 m (15.7 ft) long, 3 m (9.8 ft) wide, 1 m (3.3 ft) high and weighed 7,257 kg (15,998 lbs).

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Fast food chain Pizza Hut recently won the Guinness Book of World Records title for the "World's Largest Pizza." A large team of employees joined forces at the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2023 to create the biggest pizza the world has ever seen. It reportedly covered almost 14,000 square feet (1,300 square meters) and required literal tons of ingredients. The bill racked up 13,653 pounds (6,193 kg) of dough, 4,948 pounds (2,244 kg) of marinara sauce, 8,800 pounds (3,392 kg) of cheese, and finally, more than half a million pepperoni slices! They created a total of 68,000 slices of pizza which were donated to charity after the event.

This isn't Pizza Hut's first world record. In 2016, they won the Guinness World Records title for the highest altitude pizza delivery on land when they delivered a pizza to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

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At some point in the history of humankind, "the bigger the better" became a leading principle in our lives. There have certainly been some crazy and creative Guinness World Records set, but a good chunk of them are solely based on taking normal things and making them much, much bigger. When it comes to food, the results are both delectable and confounding.

Click through to see mouthwatering, yet terrifying photos of world-record-setting foods and dishes from around the world.