Grass Roots
p. 42 · Read in the full issue
Paradise Bakeries of Lae, biggest of PNG’s bakers, is aiming at a listing in the Guinness Book of Records with a giant cracker it prepared for the Morobe Show. Paradise’s sales manager, Richard Rentoule, said the biscuit would measure 4ft by 2ft and weigh about 50 kg. A condition for its inclusion in the book was that it had to be eaten. Mr Rentoule said he felt there would be no shortage of volunteers, since the quality of his company’s "bikkies" was well known. On the other hand, there might have to be an adjustment to the customary fashion in PNG of eating the cracker because the big one would prove a little difficult to dunk into a cup of tea. Papua New Guinea Post-Courier’s cartoonist, Grass Roots, thought the dunking could be done another way with cartons of the local brew.