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Italy Cooks Up World's Longest Pizza

NAPLES, Italy (CBS4) - More than four hundred pizza makers converged on Naples with one goal: to make a really big pizza.

On Wednesday, the set a new world record for the longest pizza ever made at 6,000-feet-long.

The margherita pizza's ingredients?

Two tons of mozzarella, two tons of flour, 3,300 pounds of tomato sauce, 53 gallons of oil, and 65.9 pounds of fresh basil.

To put it all together, the cooks worked on the city's waterfront for 11 hours.

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