WACO // A candy factory created the world’s largest chocolate bar, only to have the title stolen by a rival. Workers at the Mars Wrigley Confectionery in Waco unveiled a 12-foot-long, 4,728-pound Snickers bar—the equivalent of 43,000 regular-sized Snickers, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald. A judge from the Guinness World Records certified it as the biggest chocolate-and-nut bar ever made. Two weeks later, however, a Hershey’s plant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, struck back with a 5,943-pound Reese’s Take 5 bar. “The Reese’s team believes records, even those just a few weeks old, are meant to be broken,” a spokesperson told Food & Wine.
DRIPPING SPRINGS // When people started using Tito’s Vodka as hand sanitizer in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the company took to social media to tell them to stop—Tito’s Vodka is 40 percent alcohol, and hand sanitizer must be at least 60 percent, as Tito’s warned its customers on Twitter. But soon the company tweaked its recipe, and by press time the distillery had begun manufacturing 24 tons of sanitizer, with plans to make more in the coming weeks.
While we advise that you cannot use our vodka as a hand sanitizer, our distillery has been working hard to get all of the pieces in place to begin production on 24 tons of hand sanitizer that adheres to industry and governmental guidance. Please see attached for more information. pic.twitter.com/c5pTzVOvv1
— TitosVodka (@TitosVodka) March 22, 2020
