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The Jewish Chronicle

JLGB sets custard pie fight record

August 14, 2009 15:24
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ByJessica Elgot, Jessica Elgot

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It took 253 people, 648 pies and 200 litres of custard to launch one world record attempt by the Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade for the biggest ever custard pie fight.

The Guinness World Records board drew up 14 pages of rules for the pie fight to qualify for a world record, including specifying the pies must be edible, at least eight inches in diameter and that each person involved in the fight must throw at least two pies.

The campers, on Mersea Island in Essex, smashed the previous record of 120 people in a pie fight from Los Angeles, California, in 2008.

More than 20 members of staff cordoned off an area of the camp to prepare the pies, made from pre-baked kosher flan bases and custard, which JLGB staff poured into the bases.