Italy beats world record with 600-meter sausage

ROME — Italy Sunday snatched from Romania the record for the production of the world's longest sausage when a team of pork butchers crafted a delicacy more than half a kilometer long, the ANSA news agency reported.

Alberto Della Pelle from Penne, a small town in central Italy, helped by nine colleagues, created a sausage 597.8 meters (1,961 feet) long in the main street.

It was officially measured and declared to have beaten easily the previous Romanian record-holder, only 392 meters (1,286 feet) in length.

The monster sausage will be sliced to fill 6,000 sandwiches which will be sold to raise funds for the charity Caritas. (report from Agence France-Presse)