A breakfast staple has helped the City of Centerville achieve a world record.
Radio Iowa reported that Centerville’s annual Pancake Day celebration thrust the town of a little over 5,000 people into the Guinness World Record stratosphere.
The event served 14,280 pancakes, good enough to shatter the mark of 13,000, which was achieved in Missouri last June, the station reported.
“Goals!” Daniel Bennett, the associate director of the New York Jazz Academy, tweeted.
Centerville has celebrated Pancake Day every fourth Saturday of September since 1948.
Organizers told UPI that grocery chain Hy-Vee donated 2,400 pounds of pancake batter for the event, with the effort taken up by an army of around 100 volunteers from numerous area businesses.
The festival usually serves about 17,000 pancakes on any given year, but the figure was reduced this year in light of the Guinness attempt.
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