There are a lot of weird entrants for the Guinness Book of Records, but a group of Greek bakers in Thessaloniki really rose to the challenge when they built a giant "koulouri" on Sunday around the city's medieval White Tower.
The Thessaloniki Bakers Association now must wait to find out whether its feat will be accepted into the Guinness Book of Records; in the meantime, the bakers say they plan to build an even larger koulouri around the nearby Amphipolis burial mound, because why not?
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