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Why a chocolate bar dubbed the largest in the world was buried at Mount Rumpke landfill
Take a look inside Mount Rumpke, Ohio’s largest landfill
Take a look inside Mount Rumpke, Ohio’s largest landfill, located in Greater Cincinnati.
Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer
Did you know a chocolate bar dubbed the largest in the world was buried just about 20 miles from downtown Cincinnati?
Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Colerain Township has a rich history and is home to many unusual contents: a circus elephant and the ashes of the area’s famed Touchdown Jesus statue are just a couple of the interesting items buried on the property.
But what about this large chocolate bar? How did it find its way to the landfill known locally as Mount Rumpke?
How the world’s largest chocolate bar made its way to Rumpke
In the late 1980s or early ’90s, the Rumpke landfill found itself in the middle of an emergency.
Molly Yeager, Rumpke’s corporate communications manager, previously told The Enquirer the chocolate bar, dubbed the largest in the world at that time, was touring around the country on the back of a truck.
The truck at one point broke down outside of Cincinnati and the bar was deemed unfit to eat. (What’s the point of a massive chocolate bar you can’t eat?)
After that, it was buried at Rumpke.
What kind of chocolate bar was it?
Depending on whom you ask, you might get a different answer, Yeager told The Enquirer.
It was either a Nestlé Crunch Bar or a Hershey bar.
What is the record for the world’s largest chocolate bar today?
The record for the world’s largest chocolate bar has remained the same since 2011, with the United Kingdom taking credit for the massive block of chocolate.
According to Guinness World Records, the largest chocolate bar, weighing 12,770 pounds and 4.48 ounces, was created Oct. 7, 2011, by Thorntons in Alfreton, Derbyshire.
It measured 13 feet, 1.48 inches by 13 feet, 1.48 inches by 1 foot, 1.78 inches. The large treat was made up of sugar, dried whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, butter oil and emulsifier.
It’s unclear how large the chocolate bar buried at Rumpke was in height and weight.
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