"Hy-Vee earned its second Guinness World Record after creating the largest ice cream sandwich on Friday. Hy-Vee attempted the creation due to their commitment to donate 5 million meals to help families in need across the Midwest this holiday season, according to a Hy-Vee press release," the Nebraska Now reports.

The ice cream sandwich weighed in at 2,960 pounds and a Guinness World Records Adjudicator on-site certified the sandwich.

"The creation took five hours as 30 Hy-Vee employees assembled 32 2-foot by 3-foot cookies and 182 14-pound cylinders of ice cream. The final product measured 35 feet long, 4 feet wide and 11 inches high."

"The largest ice cream sandwich is 1,342.6 kg (2,960 lb), and was achieved by Hy-Vee Inc. (USA) in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, USA, on 22 October 2021," the Guinness World Records says.

"The ice cream sandwich consisted of chocolate chip cookie biscuits sandwiching vanilla ice cream. The sandwich measured 10.6 m long, 1.2 m wide, and .27 m tall."

"A Nebraska grocery store broke a Guinness World Record by creating an ice cream sandwich that weighed in at 2,960 pounds," the UPI reports.

"The Hy-Vee store in Plattsmouth said Guinness set the goal for the record at 2,460 pounds, and a team of 30 employees worked for five hours to create an ice cream sandwich that beat the goal weight by 500 pounds.

"The record-breaking ice cream sandwich was then divided into portions and donated to the Food Bank of Lincoln and the Food Bank for the Heartland."

"Today, the Hy-Vee store in Plattsmouth, Neb., created the largest ice cream sandwich. The record was attempted to kick off Hy-Vee’s commitment to donate 5 million meals to help families in need across the Midwest this holiday season," the official website says.



"The tasty treat weighed in at a whopping 2,960 pounds. After being certified by a Guinness World Records adjudicator who was on-site for the attempt, the ice cream sandwich was divided up and donated to the Food Bank of Lincoln and Food Bank for the Heartland, which together provide food assistance to more than 100 counties across Nebraska and Iowa.

"It took 30 Hy-Vee employees five hours to create the record-breaking treat, which was assembled with 32 2-foot by 3-foot cookies and 182 14-pound cylinders of ice cream into a sandwich that measured 35 feet long, 4 feet wide and 11 inches high. The ice cream sandwich was then transported to a nearby cooperative for official weighing where the adjudicator officially named Hy-Vee the official record holder again."

"The ice cream was donated by Hiland Dairy, and the trailer for assembly and transport was provided by Quandt Transport Service.

" In addition to the record-breaking dessert, Omaha and Lincoln area Hy-Vee stores are also donating a portion of the proceeds from its 20-count mini cookie sales throughout the month of October to benefit local Feeding America-affiliated food banks.

"“We are extremely grateful for our long-standing partnership with Hy-Vee and their dedication to fighting food insecurity across the Heartland. This donation is a special one — It will bring so much joy to children and families struggling to make ends meet,” said President & CEO of Food Bank for the Heartland Brian Barks.

“Thank you to the wonderful team at Hy-Vee for coordinating this effort and giving food-insecure children across Nebraska and western Iowa a reason to smile.”

"Hy-Vee, Inc. is an employee-owned chain of supermarkets in the Midwestern and Southern United States, with more than 280 locations in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, with stores planned in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.

"Hy-Vee was founded in 1930 by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg in Beaconsfield, Iowa, in a small brick building known as the Beaconsfield Supply Store, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"Hy-Vee's largest store in the United States opened June 13, 2023, in Gretna, Nebraska (near Omaha), with nearly 135,000 square feet (12,500 m2) of retail space. Even larger stores of 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) are planned for Zionsville, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky; the Zionsville store has no set opening date as of May 2024, while the Louisville location expected to open in 2023 was yet to be built as of October 2024." (Wikipedia)

"A record of much importance was broken at a Hy-Vee in Plattsmouth, Neb. the other day. That record was the creation of the largest ice cream sandwich the world has ever seen," the PennLive.com reports.

"KETV News reports how this particular Hy-Vee—which is a chain of supermarkets found in the Midwest—was cooking up ways to kick off donating five million meals for this holiday season. In the end, 30 total employees spent five hours of their day to create the nearly 3,000-pound gastric delight, thus beating the previous Guinness World Record that had stood at just nearly 2,500.

"“We are extremely grateful for our longstanding partnership with Hy-Vee and their dedication to fighting food insecurity across the Heartland,” says President & CEO of Food Bank for the Heartland, Brian Barks, according to Nebraska TV News. “This donation is a special one—it will bring so much joy to children and families struggling to make ends meet.”

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