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Two guys from Denver just set a Guinness World Record for building the tallest waffle stack (seriously) and the Twitter thread chronicling their momentous achievement is one heck of a must-read.
Spencer McCullough, 23, and his friend Steve Garguilo, used more than 50 pounds of waffle batter and even followed a 40-page PDF that McCullough received from Guinness to ensure that what they made fit the record-keeper’s definition of what they believe constitutes a waffle.
Because creating the world’s tallest stack of waffles naturally qualifies as very important news, Denver Post reporter Elizabeth Hernandez was tasked with covering the event.
You know when you get a press release to cover a Guinness world record attempt for tallest stack of waffles & expect it to be some big commercial thing & then it's just a guy's house? This is SO MUCH BETTER. Follow along, #Denver! Things might get weird! pic.twitter.com/xcxqZCMJZM
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Garguilo, who traveled to Denver from Texas for the occasion, responded to McCullough asking if he would join him in the record attempt with, “In the future, please phrase these requests as a sentence, ‘you are coming to Denver’ and not as questions. See you then.”
ACTUAL TEXTUAL EVIDENCE because I am nothing if not a serious journalist, thank you pic.twitter.com/7TBHeIrMQF
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
The rest of the day Hernandez painstakingly reported on the historical goings-on taking place in McCullough’s back yard.
Some highlights… (no, this is amazingly not ALL of the tweets she posted on the record waffle stacking event).
There is an official DENVER LAND SURVEYOR here because the dudes needed someone to take an official measurement. THIS IS A SERIOUS OPERATION, YOU GUYS. THERE IS A 3D MEASURING DEVICE IN THE BACKYARD.
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
The waffles get broiled after being made to make the perfect, hardened stacking brick. Just a bunch of friends coming together to make breakfast foods in the name of GREATNESS, what a time to be alive pic.twitter.com/pWXgFtbhpG
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
The record to beat, by the way, is a 51 centimeter stack. Everyone is extremely confident that this will be beat.
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
WAFFLE DRAMA!! "We're at max capacity for production. WE NEED A BIGGER OVEN." I would say I am stressed but the cool thing about covering something about waffles is that EVERYTHING IS FINE
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
This is not the official stack because they literally have to use a specially leveled table but THINGS. ARE. HAPPENING. Also! Pancakes are being made because YUM pic.twitter.com/vZQZQeVoSl
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
For your envisioning purposes, this is 23 y/o waffle wunderkind Spencer, and, yes, he has a ponytail and crocs. pic.twitter.com/TUPMYTKc2f
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
and in case you were like "Lizzy, what are waffles without toppings?" OH DONT YOU WORRY. THERE ARE TOPPINGS, BABY pic.twitter.com/B1JIK3Mg3M
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Someone just walked in to bring a big fan into the kitchen because it's approximately 800 degrees and they said "I AM A BIG FAN OF THIS PROJECT" sidenote: can I be best friends with everyone here, I am just wondering
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
I have been told to stress this is AN UNOFFICIAL COUNT, but we are about 20 centimeters away, guys!!! pic.twitter.com/BVIbimuRv2
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Oh, the anticipation.
If you're interested in the #WaffleWorldRecord, follow @ehernandez. She's legit. @jaketapper follows her.
— Steve Garguilo (@sdgarguilo) May 26, 2018
Busted.
INTERMISSION…
And we’re back.
People just keep walking in, this is truly the waffle party OF THE YEAR.
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
This is Jennifer Laplante and Tyler Keigan. THEY DONT KNOW ANYONE HERE, THEY JUST FOUND THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK AND WERE LIKE "heck yeah, waffles!! Let's go!!" Now they are making waffle pals! pic.twitter.com/SrNSlKYbjk
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Paul Girgis from Chicago flew in to Denver to visit a friend & realized this was happening & knew Spencer from college. "I thought it was a joke, but I'm here, and there are land surveyors?"
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
THE WAX PAPER HAS BEEN PLACED pic.twitter.com/YnOU8VrLMI
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Drumroll, please?
THE MUSIC pic.twitter.com/5pcw09boEW
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Or music. That works too.
THE CONCENTRATION pic.twitter.com/dePWctvsdG
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
THE STACK IS BEGINNING TO WOBBLE, I CANNOT BREATHE pic.twitter.com/fgoJHgXVO3
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
WE ARE AT 48 CENTIMETERS, FRIENDS. A FEW MORE TO GO. People are RUNNING to and from the kitchen, my heart is POUNDING
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
In case it wasn't clear, this table has been professionally leveled by a real person whose job it is to professionally level things
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
I COULD NOT MANUFACTURE THIS DRAMA IF I TRIED pic.twitter.com/2qZb1DjnJe
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Okay so we almost had a complete collapse but things seem to be back in order now, I am about to pass entirely out
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
THE EMOTIONS. pic.twitter.com/CNuwhTrBkM
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
THE RECORD IS BROKEN THE RECORD IS BROKEN I REPEAT HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE, THIS IS THE TALLEST STACK OF WAFFLES EVER RECORDED *IN THE WORLD* (without official confirmation from Guinness but with official confirmation from a, uh, measuring tape)
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
They are still stacking with the added help of a Miller Chill light beer with lime umbrella pic.twitter.com/8YM5HxVRgz
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Laplante who, as a reminder, knows NO ONE HERE AND JUST SHOWED UP TO CELEBRATE BREAKFAST FOODS, says "My heart has been racing since waffle one hit the table. I want that written on tombstone."
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Alright, they have RUN OUT OF WAFFLES at 67 cm. This is the new record!! THEY STACKED UNTIL THEY COULD STACK NO MORE
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
HISTORY!
And so ends my time in this man's backyard. read @denverpost to see the final product in all its glory later today! & many thanks to my editor @denpostdana who I called on a Sat. morn to say "uh I think this is just some guy's house but I still wanna cover it" & her saying "OK!!"
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
How you know a GREAT story is in the works pic.twitter.com/nQysKfJ1d8
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
THE STORY IS HERE, GUYS. If you at all enjoyed this thread, please support local journalism and click on the story & read it with your eyeballs & then peruse all the other work my really great colleagues do! Many, many thanks!! https://t.co/SiwZuFp2sD via @denverpost
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Hero.
H/T The Daily Dot