A man is claiming the title of Britain’s biggest Yorkshire pudding addict, saying he eats at least 20 every day for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Jake Farrar, 25, from Middlesbrough, estimates that he has eaten 146,000 puds in his lifetime and he plans to eat 600 across Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, said ITV. “Anyone who doesn’t eat Yorkshire Puddings on Christmas Day is just plain wrong”, he said.
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Is Peanut world’s oldest chicken?
A US woman is asking Guinness World Records for recognition of her pet chicken, Peanut, who is believed to be the oldest in the world at the age of 20. “I’m hoping they’ll give credence to witnesses like my niece in her thirties who loved Peanut as a teen and a friend who moved to California 18 years ago and loved Peanut and was astonished when he moved back to see her again, among others,” Marsi Parker Darwin told the Sun Times News.
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