Kyoto town to seek registration for world's longest pizza

Kyoto town to seek registration for world's longest pizza

KYOTO, Japan - Assisted by their parents and teachers, schoolchildren in the town of Uji-Tawara, Kyoto Prefecture, place topping Sept. 6 on what they hope to be the world's longest pizza. Organizers of the event said they will seek to have the 25-meter-long pizza registered on the Guinness World Records book. (Kyodo)

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