Cuernavaca breaks world record for longest taco acorazado

Residents of Mexico City who made the casual thrust to Cuernavaca for a abbreviated getaway this past play were treated to a feat of culinary gallantry: the instauration of a taco acorazado measuring 80 meters (262 feet).

According to the Cuernavaca City Council, the “City of Eternal Spring” successful Morelos authorities broke the Guinness World Record by surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 78 meters acceptable past year. A nationalist notary, Hugo Salgado, certified the mark, but organizers said they won’t acquisition abstraction successful the grounds publication owed to costs.

Over 400 radical — including seasoned chefs, young radical studying for careers successful the nutrient manufacture and volunteers — worked unneurotic Sunday for 2 hours to assemble the monolithic taco acorazado, a determination specialty that translates to “armored taco.”

Originating from Cuernavaca, the generously filled taco features a large, heavy maize tortilla basal layered with reddish atom and assorted guisados — stews that typically see meats, vegetables and sauces. Classic accompaniments see cactus, doorbell peppers and potatoes.

“I consciousness precise happy,” said Estefanía Guerrero, a gastronomy pupil astatine the University of the Valle de México. “I truly liked being portion of this. We had to person a batch of connection and teamwork truthful that it wouldn’t break.”

The culinary masterpiece — whose magnitude was adjacent to astir 88 yards connected a U.S. shot tract oregon astir six standard-sized ADO buses placed extremity to extremity — was created successful beforehand of the historical Palacio de Cortés. The erstwhile residence of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés reopened successful 2023 arsenic a depository after being damaged successful the 2017 Puebla earthquake that claimed 370 lives successful cardinal Mexico.

One conception of the seemingly endless taco was filled hard-boiled egg, 1 of the simplest and astir accepted taco acorazado fillings. (Margarito Pérez Retana/Cuartoscuro)

The operation of the taco was accompanied by unrecorded music, taste performances and enthusiastic crowds. With temperatures reaching 28 degrees Celsius (82 Fahrenheit), students from section precocious schools played drawstring instruments and performed folkloric dances.

Antonio Vázquez, an organizer affiliated with businesses that nutrient masa (tortilla dough) and tortillas, said much than 20 restaurants participated successful the event.

“It’s important to notation that we achieved the rubric of the largest taco acorazado, but we are not going to bargain the leafage successful the [Guinness] grounds publication due to the fact that it costs thousands of dollars,” Vázquez said.

The lengthy taco featured a wide assortment of accepted and innovative fillings, including hard-boiled egg, mole, Milanese (a bladed chopped of meat, often pork, that is breaded and pan-fried), chicharrones (fried pork rinds), huauzontle cakes, food strips and chicken. Huauzontle is simply a high-protein, edible works related to quinoa and amaranth.

With its past rooted successful providing sustenance for workers astatine the opening of the 20th century, the taco acorazado has go a awesome of Cuernavaca’s individuality — on with the city’s lush gardens, historical haciendas and year-round pleasant climate.

With reports from El Sol de Cuernavaca and México Desconocido