Corkers lifts record size potato chip bag

A small British potato chip/crisp manufacturer – Corkers Crisps of Ely, Cambridgeshire has set a new Guiness record for the largest bag of potato chips ever lifted. The bag measured 5.5 metres high and had to be strong enough to support over a tonne, in an earlier attempt the bag broke.

The terms laid down by the Guiness book of records for this particular record require the potato chips to be fried in a single batch, making this more of a challenge than simply building a bigger bag. It took the team at Corkers over 20 hours to fry enough crisps/chips for the attempt. The previous record, held by a Japanese company was 501kg, the British team managed a total of 1,140kg.