World record a-la-Mexican: Giant tortilla

A Mexican city has celebrated the four-hundred-and-sixty-eighth anniversary of its founding with what it believes is a world record -- the biggest ever tortilla.

The residents of the southern city of Oaxaca baked the giant delicacy, measuring four-point-four meters in diameter.

Tortillas are flat corn bread -- usually small enough to fit the palm of the hand -- that have been the staple of the Mexican diet since pre-Columbian times.

The giant tortilla in Oaxaca was then topped with twenty kilograms of beans, thirty kilograms each of cheese and beef, and twenty liters of salsa -- to produce another Mexican delicacy, the taco.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service