Tip Top Supersoft® gets toasty for a Guinness World Record

With the help of Tip Top Supersoft® bread, a local Auckland couple are in line to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest toast mosaic[i].

 

The colossal image, which measured in at a whopping 116.27 square meters took two days of construction and the toasting of over 7,700 slices of bread to complete.

 

Tip Top Supersoft® got in behind the Guinness World Record attempt providing hundreds of loaves of bread and some helping hands on the toasters.

 

Simon Dixon from Tip Top Supersoft® says there was no hesitation in supporting Jeanette and Bruce Bremner of the 50 Plus Lifestyle Show with the record breaking feat, the motivation behind which was to raise funds for the KidsCan StandTall charity.

 

“Getting involved in this unique project was a great opportunity to support our chosen charity KidsCan.  I don’t know if anyone expected to be toasting and building for two days but when it all came together and the last few slices went into place it was certainly well worth all the work!”

 

A toast mosaic is a large image made up of toast or ‘pixels’ carefully toasted to different degrees to give a range of colours from white / beige through to charcoal, with each piece carefully laid to form a giant image.

 

The design of the mosaic was a project for Auckland Unitec Arts students to create an image that best depicts the efforts of KidsCan StandTall. A team of students gave hours of their time to help construct the image and break the world record.

 

The final image – a child running through the wind and rain wearing a raincoat, shoes and carrying a full lunch box – symbolises the programmes the charity supplies to low decile schools across the country.

 

The previous world record held in the UK was for a mosaic measuring a 104 square meters (10m x 10.4m).