A typical Cold Stone store following electricity requirements: Proceeds from tickets sold to witnesses of the confectionery construction were donated to charity.Įlaine F.The electricity bill by far is the largest utility expense - this expense should easily deter any logically thinking wannabe franchisee.
About half of the ice cream was eaten on the spot, the remaining two tons were distributed to area hospitals, schools and nursing homes. “This- is a wonderful little celebration,” said President Conway as she watched a crowd armed with paper plates and plastic spoons heading for the sundae. Signatures were secured from Smith's president, Jill Conway, the deans of the faculty, various students, the sheriff of Northampton, the founder of Friendly's and assorted other dignitaries who witnessed the creation from folding chairs in the V.I.P. To win the Guinness title, the Smith women must submit the proper evidence: statistics, photographs and affidavits signed by 13 “impartial witnesses” attesting to the dimensions of the sundae. After 10 layers, a hush fell over the crowd of 2,500 spectators as the topmost scoop was shaped and the fudge and whipped cream christening commenced.Īfter an hour and a half, the supersundae stood completed (for about two minutes before spectators began to consume it), a majestic caloric monument against the sky.īut whether Guinness will accept this as history in their 1980 edition won't be decided until July. Red‐shined Smith students chanted chain‐gang songs as they hauled buckets of fudge sauce. At the construction site, ice cream blocks were unloaded from a refrigerated truck, sawed in half and laid like sweet bricks in a pyramid shape. The ice cream - all vanilla to insure a constant density-was purchased at cost from the Friendly Ice Cream Company. Students met the threat of spring sun with space‐age equipment - silver foil thermal survival blankets to throw over the ice cream mounds if they seemed to be succumbing. “But it turns out that the pressure isn't too much to have to worry about.” Jess Josephs of the Smith physics faculty. “If you put pressure on a solid material that expands upon freezing as ice cream does, it changes the melting point and it just melts,” said Prof. “Supposedly, if you're an inch off, the whole thing is ruined.” Looking up at a classmate poised on a ladder, she added, “1 really do hope no one falls in.”Īn accidental sundae dip is the least worry in building an ice cream structure of such proportions, The greatest, of course, is the threat of meltdown. “They have to place the blocks very carefully,” said Miss Babbitt, who was scheduled to serve tours of duty as carton‐ripper, table‐watcher and scooper. You see, the human chain is taking the ice cream from the refrigerator trucks over to the baggers who are put, ting plastic on it and handing it to the women on the lowest level who are sending it up to the higher levels,” Lucy Babbitt, ‘82, explained. The Smith physics ‘department served as technical consultants, the buildings and grounds crew built the scaffolding and the class of ‘82 drew up flow charts and divided itself into work brigades. After inspecting the fountain !'used as a dish to hold the sundae of 'standing record, they returned to announce that it could be topped.
New York to conduct the proper site reIsearch. built in a fountain in Manhattan's Cen‘Aral Park in 1976.Īfter consulting the Guinness de1partment of food records, a contingent of Smith sundae architects traveled to. The official record‐holder, 12 feet high and weighing 7,250 pounds, was. When they, were through, they had built an 8,100‐pound colossus that stood 13 feet 8 inches high, incorporating 1,800 gallons of ice cream, 150 pounds of fudge sauce, 75 pounds of chocolate sprinkles, 90 pounds of walnuts, 12 gallons of cherry halves and dozens of cans of whipped cream. On the newly green, still soggy sod of the athletic field, the class of 1982 resolved to earn a page in that famous history book of bizarre accomplishments, the Guinness Book of World Records, by constructing the largest ice cream sundae the world had ever known. On a recent Sunday, history (maybe) was made at Smith College.
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