The town of Pulpí entered the Guinness Book of Records yesterday for the world's largest salad. Twenty chefs laboured for around three hours to prepare 6,700kg of lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers and olives in an enormous container 18m long and 4.8m wide.

The weigh-in at 3.30pm was supervised by Guinness judge, Carlos Martínez, who travelled from London especially for the occasion.

Local business association boss, Lorenzo Navarro, explained to journalists that, while it took three hours to mix the ingredient, the record was achieved only after "sixteen hours of constant work, chopping, cleaning, transporting, mixing and decorating" the giant salad, which was distributed to local restaurants, who did not charge their clients for it when they served it up last night.