Italian restaurant makes 330-foot pizza to raise money for Australia firefighters
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}That’s a tasty fundraiser.
An Italian restaurant in Australia is cooking up something big for firefighters battling the extreme bushfires: a 338-foot Margherita pizza.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The three-hundred-plus-foot pizza took four hours to create and was then cooked using a conveyor oven. (INSTAGRAM/@ISSAC_EATSALOT via REUTERS)
Pellegrini’s restaurant in New South Wales created the giant pie using several roughly 3-foot-long sheets of dough that were then pieced together and covered with tomato sauce and mozzarella, Reuters reported.
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The three-hundred-plus-foot pizza was then cooked using a conveyor oven before being topped with classic Margherita fixings like basil leaves, oregano and olive oil.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The feet of continuous pizza reportedly took about four hours to create, the restaurant shared.
Pellegrini’s debuted the massive meal at a fair that the restaurant put on to celebrate the record-breaking event and raise money for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. All proceeds reportedly went to the fire service.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Images of the incredible Italian favorite quickly went viral on social media with people both praising the restaurant’s philanthropic efforts – as well as the pizza.
“Such a great cause. Good work guys and gals,” one person wrote on Instagram.
“Crazy,” another simply commented.
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“Lawdy lawd,” another wrote, surely referencing the pizza’s side.