Proving that the Pancake Karnival is a Fargo Favorite, patrons line up to fill up on piping-hot pancakes, savory sausage, and sweet orange juice.
Kiwanians in Fargo, North Dakota, can add the Guinness Book of World Records to the growing list of publications in which they are featured—and this not-so-small victory is as sweet as the maple syrup poured over the pancakes they served to get there. (See "Fargo Pancake Fame Goes Far," October 2007 KIWANIS magazine.)
About 300 volunteers joined 100 Kiwanians to flip and serve a record 34,818 pancakes—4,093 more than needed to beat a record established in 2002 by the Lions Club in Lubbock, Texas—during the 50th annual Pancake Karnival fundraiser on February 9.
“With (a Guinness adjudicator) there, we were able to get immediate confirmation that we set the record,” says club president Matthew Sullivan. “With this being our silver anniversary, it was really neat to see some of the members of the community who had been to all 50 Karnivals.”
The Fargo Kiwanis club’s pancake fundraiser also has been mentioned as one of the 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: In the USA and Canada and in a 2003 National Geographic magazine article.
Posted
Feb 15 2008, 05:07 PM
by
Scott Smith