Sticky Dilemma In Possibly World's Longest Doughnut Line

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There are only a few metaphorical flies in the ointment – and they have significantly bigger wings – for volunteers in a Michigan community out to crush the current world record for the longest continuous line of doughnuts: Keeping the birds away.

About 100 volunteers lay 24,000 doughnuts in Hamburg Township’s Manley Bennett Park Saturday, the Livingston Daily Press & Argus and WWJ/CBS local report. Early estimates are that the doughnut line is 2 miles, 750 feet.

It has to be confirmed yet by Guinness World Records, but Hamburg Fun Fest organizers are confident they’ve run circles around the previous record, set in Berlin, Germany, on April 27, 2015, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Friedrichstadt-Palast, Europe’s Show Palace.

“It’s taking some efforts now to keep the birds off the doughnuts until we can get this line verified by our professional surveyor and our witnesses,” organizer Joanna Hardesty told WWJ.

It wasn’t a matter of just plunking the doughnuts down, like one might toss dough into the deep fat fryer. They were planted, in a fashion, by a custom-made implement hooked to a tractor. Volunteers followed and fit them into place, as one would brick pavers, taking care to ensure they were touching.

The chain was made with day-old doughnuts donated by the Michigan-based Meijer supermarket chain. Once the record is verified, the doughnuts will be served to local farm animals.

The doughnut-laying was part of the celebration of the 10-year anniversary of both the Hamburg Fun Fest and the organization that sponsors it, H.E.R.O., or the Hamburg Enhanced Recreation Organization.

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