Dangote Flour Mill has broken the Guinness Book of Records for the Worldโs Largest Puff-Puff pyramid, as it fried two metric tonnesย of flour to celebrate the 2018 World Puff-Puff Day on 27 October.
Thatโs the equivalent of 40 bags of flour, each 50kgโa total 2,000 kilos.
The previous record is 200kg, thatโs four bags of flour, fried at a location.
Puff- Puff,ย is a delicious โstreet foodโโ made by deep fryingย flour, yeast, sugar, water, salt.
Ghanaians call itย Bofrot (togbei) , Cameroonians and Nigerians call it Puff-Puff (Puff) or beignet in French.
Anthony Chiejina, Group Head, Corporate Communication, Dangote Group, said to celebrate the maiden edition of World Puff-Puff Day, over 50 confectioners engaged to produce over 30,000 pieces of the local snack, as part of activities marking the day.
He said that the event at Muri Okunola Park, in Victoria Island, Lagos had in attendance the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and over 1,000ย people, including school children drawn from variousย schools.
Managing Director Dangote Flour Mills, Thabo Mabe, said that World Puff-Puff Day, was an initiative of the flour miller to celebrate the confectioners who fry the delicacy, the consumers who enjoy the snack and the sellers who make a living from selling it.
Mabe said that the event was organised to celebrate Nigeriaโs creativity in the local delicacy, as well as further create awareness for the companyโs 1.5kg size flour launched in March.
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