How About a 62-meter-long Chocolate Cake ?

A queer thing for a change - a ridiculously long chocolate cake: 62 meters, my folks.

The City of Mito, Ibaraki, once ranked number one in the amount of chocolate consumption, and it seems that the city folks once again wanted to prove how much they love chocolate by making a snaky chocolate cake 62 meters long and "made it".

Mito topped the nation's capital cities where prefectural offices are located and the government‐ordinance‐designated cities put together in the total amount of chocolate purchased. Just to celebrate the feat, the city's Chamber of Commerce and Industry launched chocolate-cake-making project three ago in 2005.

On the day of the project, February 27, a total of 78 kilograms of chocolate cream and sponge cake was brought into a shopping center in Mito. Some 120 children and their parents joined by the mentally-handicapped set out to challenge a mass cake-making.

First, 124 slices of sponge were ready chocolate-cream-coated, and at the signal by a team of cooking school students the participants began rolling the cake all at once - a 62-km-long chocolate cake.

A lady from Naka City said she was worried how a roll cake could ever be rolled that long, adding "It was good, though, that they made it. Cooperation is all it takes to do things." Sayaka Ishii, a 2nd grader of a local elementary school thought it "terribly difficult rolling but such a fun". A father thought it great to share the work with kids and the handicapped people side by side"

The 62-km-long chocolate roll cake was sliced into pieces for the participants to carry home. The proceeds are to be donated to Mito's Social Welfare Cooperation to help support the mentally-handicapped.

I wonder why it has to be 62 and not 65 meters. That aside, it certainly is queer to have to roll a cake that long.