Iranian ice cream shop tries to produce world’s largest ice cream tub

There might be tense talks about the nuclear program taking place in Iran this week, according to Reuters, but behind the scenes, there's another struggle ensuing — it's the battle for the world's largest carton of ice cream.

The station PressTV showed on Monday the enormous tub built by the company Choopan Dairy, which the organizers claim weighed in at 5 tonnes, despite an error in the text copy of the story, which says "5,000 tons." Now that would be a lot of ice cream.

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The mass of ice cream cost Choopan Dairy $30,000 to make, according to the Associated Press. It measured 1.6 metres by two metres.

The company claims it broke the world record set in 2005 by Baskin-Robbins, with a cup of ice cream weighing slightly more than 4 tonnes. However, no representatives from Guinness World Records have confirmed the claim and the website still shows Baskin-Robbins as the record holder.

Let's hope all that sweet ice cream doesn't become sour grapes. At least there was free ice cream for everyone.

But things may have turned sour among the hoards of people who came out to witness the unveiling, according to at least one report cited by the Guardian. The organizers didn't serve ice cream from the tub, instead leaving it full and giving out separate servings, the Guardian story says.

Maybe Choopan hasn't yet mastered the art of making 5-tonne ice cream batches.

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The company still has some work ahead of it yet, because Baskin-Robbins also holds the record for most ice cream cones prepared in a minute and the world's largest ice cream scoop pyramid.

Better get scooping.