Guinness World Record Set For Largest Menudo At Nearly 2,500 Pounds
Menudo is one of the most well-known meals (and hangover cures) to come from Mexican cuisine. Made with tripe (the edible lining of a cow’s stomach), hominy, and plenty of warm chiles and spices, this soup has become a popular weekend staple. Recently, one Mexican food company stepped up big to pay tribute to the hearty, spicy menudo.
Photo courtesy of Juanita’s Foods
Juanita’s Foods, a producer of hominy, posole, menudo, and other Mexican foods, set a Guinness World Record this weekend, for the largest menudo ever conceived.
It required a 300-gallon kettle to cook everything and weighed an astonishing 2,439 pounds.
Juanita’s Foods worked with culinary students and instructors from the Arts Institutes to make the record-breaking feat happen at their headquarters in Wilmington, California.
According to a press release, over 980 pounds of tripe, 600 pounds of hominy, and 171 pounds of spices and chiles went into making this massive menudo batch.
A Juanita Foods representative confirmed to Foodbeast that the minimum requirement to set the record was 1,100 pounds, meaning that just on the amount of tripe and hominy alone, the mark was easily eclipsed.
It took about 6 hours to cook the menudo at the event where the Guinness World Record was confirmed, and it fed approximately 800-1,1000 people who attended, including Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti. The rest was donated to local community service organizations, including The Dream Center Foundation, Food Finders, and Long Beach Rescue Mission.
