These bakers weren't loafing around.
A team of French cooks rose to the occasion and created the world's longest baguette on Sunday — after losing the record to Italy five years ago.
The colossal, crusty comestible measured 140.5 meters, or 461 feet, after it came out of a specially-built wheeled oven in the Paris suburb of Susernes, Reuters reported.
The iconic French bread was 10 meters, or about 33 feet, longer than the one bakers in Como, Italy, produced in June 2019 to snatch the record from the country that invented the long, thin loaf made of only flour, water, salt and yeast.
"Everything has been validated. We are all very happy to have beaten this record and that it was done in France," one of the French bakers, Anthony Arrigault, said after a Guinness World Records judge signed off on the achievement.
The 18-member crew used 90 kilos, or nearly 200 pounds, of flour to make the dough they began kneading and shaping at 3 a.m. during an event for the French Confederation of Bakers and Pastry Chefs, the German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported.
Confederation President Dominique Anract, who said the baguette was an "essential part of our gastronomic heritage," hailed the effort.
"A record for the longest handcrafted baguette requires true spirit and collective sportsmanship," Anract said.
Pieces of the record-setting bread were distributed to hungry onlookers, with the rest earmarked for donation to homeless people.
