El Burrito Más Grande Del Mundo

The people of La Paz love to celebrate. After Todos Santos and the Dia de Muertos this is the third consecutive day of the city buzzing with lively activity. This time it's the Guinness World Record attempt for the largest burrito ever prepared. It's all happening on the Málecon - La Paz's esplanade by the bay. On "normal" days the Málecon really comes to life only at sunset, when the bars and restaurants light up and people and vehicles commence their parade, a concert of music, motor sounds and laughter.
This time it's early morning, a row of tables is stretching along the Málecon for kilometres and a crowd is gathering as an odd-looking pickup truck slowly approaches. It's the tortilla machine laying out the base for the record burrito, and it's going to be a long day...

An excerpt from the Guinness Record report sums it up:
"That was the ‘crazy contraption’, it was a regular tortilla-maker but specially adapted so it could continually churn out a cooked flour tortilla for over 2 km. The speed had to be just right, if they went to fast it would stretch the tortilla and break it rendering the attempt disqualified – so the pick up truck plodded along at 200 metres per hour as people fed in dough, massaged the cooked tortilla and laid it out on foil on the tables and then

covered in a plastic wrap to avoid it drying out in the autumn sunshine (temperatures still reaching around 33 degrees centigrade).
The Guinness World Records adjudicator followed the tortilla truck throughout the morning, there was an incident around 9 am that nearly ended the attempt. The gas canister had run out and the tortilla production stopped for almost a minute.

However a quick changeover of gas and the machine was working again – the organisers managed to stretch the tortilla over the break and it was still one continuous pieces, disaster averted.
As the tortilla production continued into the late afternoon, the 54 participating

restaurants had taken positions along the promenade in 14 cooking stations. There 4 restaurants worked together to make the filling, a typical fish machaca with onions, chilli and refried beans. At each station was a health inspector from the government to ensure that all the food was prepared in a hygienic manner, after all the burrito was going to be served to 27,000 people once completed.
At around 16:30 the tortilla had finished, a celebration began but there were still two more key steps – filling the burrito and rolling it. First the adjudicator had to weigh all the filling as this record, like all of Guinness World Records big food records, is based on weight not length. With the help of the local motorcycle club the man and the electric scales were transported from cooking station to cooking station. Once everything was weighed the refried beans were spread along the tortilla, followed by the fishy filling. The signal was then given to roll the burrito as thousands of volunteers rolled one side, before rolling the other to make sure it represented a normal burrito.
Finally, at around 8pm the burrito was finished more than 12 hours after the first metre of tortilla had been rolled out.
The minimum weight to beat was 1 tonne, this monster burrito weighed nearly 5.8 tonnes - the world record for the largest burrito!"