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Lebanon At War With Israel

by Earl Morningstarr
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In a battle of hummus. The two middle eastern nations are going head to head in a fight to hold the world record for the biggest dish of hummus, and on Friday Israel defeated Lebanon with it’s latest campaign by cooking up a 4,090 kg serving of the paste.

More than 50 Arab and Jewish chefs worked together in the small Israeli town of Abu Gosh to make the massive serving of hummus using a six metre wide satellite dish to prepare the food in. The record was verified by Jack Brockbank from Guinness World of Records who confirmed that the chefs had used the correct, traditional ingredients of chickpeas, lemon, tahini, garlic, salt and olive oil.

“It was really good hummus at the end.” Brockbank said.

Lebanon are taking the whole thing very seriously, on 24th October last year chef’s in Beirut produced a 2,056 kg bowl of hummus which took the record title. At that time Lebanese chefs called it a victory in reaffirming ownership of a Lebanese food that had been appropriated by Israelis.

“Lebanon is trying to win a battle against Israel by registering this new Guinness World Record and telling the whole world that hummus is a Lebanese product, it’s part of our traditions,” Fady Jreissati, the Lebanese organizer, said at the time.

In 2008 a group of Lebanese businessmen declared that it would sue Israel to prevent it from marketing hummus as an Israeli dish.

Fadi Abboud, the Lebanese Tourism Minister announced on Friday, once he heard that Israel had beaten the record, that Lebanon would counter attack with an even bigger bowl of hummus in the spring. The Lebanese intend cooking the tasty paste right on the Lebanese/Israeli border, to taunt the Israelis as it is cooked.

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