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'The Ultimate Za'
Not all of the University's ground-
breaking achievements are confined
to the classroom. In the early 1980s,
students put down their books in
an effort to bake the world's longest
pizza.
Students began work on the mas-
sive Sicilian-style pie at 7 a.m. on
Oct. 21, 1983, as part of a fundraiser
for the United Way charity.
The pizza, which was nicknamed
"The Ultimate Za," measured 28
inches by 312 feet, and consisted of
900poundsofmozzarellacheese,300
pounds of pepperoni, 200 pounds of
Bermuda onions, 80 pounds of green
peppers and mushrooms, as well as
48 gallons of tomato sauce. These
ingredients all sat atop of 1,600
poundsofdough.
Local merchants donated all of
the pie's ingredients.
With the help of Michael Crabb,
the Michigan Union Food Supervi-
sor, students cooked the pizza's crust
in shifts.
The dough was then put through
a 30-foot propane-fired oven and
wrapped in plastic wrap before being
rolled out across 40 eight-foot tables
outside the Michigan Union.
Around 4:30 p.m., students
unwrapped the dough and placed
cheese, tomato sauce, and various
toppings and spices along the crust,
which stretched longer than a foot-
ball field.
To keep the pizza fresh, students
moved an oven along the pizza
throughout parts of day. Then-Uni-
versity President Harold Shapiro had
the honor of cutting the first slice.
The festivities also included a
pizza-eating contest, where con-
testants were paired into teams of
a hand-tied eater and a blindfolded
feeder, and an all-you-can-eat buf-
fet.
For three dollars, students could
help themselves to pizza, salad and
beer.
While the event was very suc-
cessful, a mound of leftovers was
left behind until over 200 members
of the marching band helped them-
selves to the remains.
The University's attempt has long
since been outdone. On Dec. 8, 1990,
Norwood Pick 'n' Pay Hypermar-
ket in Johannesburg, South Africa
claimed the record. The pizza mea-
sured 112 feet, 8 inches in diameter
and consisted of more than one half
ton of flour, nearly a ton of tomato
puree, and 1,700 pounds of cheese.
The Ultimate Za was not the Uni-
versity's first foray into the world of
record-breaking snacks. The year
before students set a world record by
assembling the 300-foot long "Wol-
verine sub" sandwich.
ALEX KAZICKAS
"The Ultimate Za," baked by University students and
employees in 1983, was at that time the largest pizza ever
made. It was longer than a football field and topped with
pepperoni, onions, peppers and mushrooms.
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