Big In Texas: We Have The U.S. Record For Biggest Pinata!

Who doesn't love a pinata?

Even as a child in the 1960s the pinnacle of any party I went to was a pinata. Sure, it was a disaster waiting to happen, because why would make a kid dizzy and then hand him a stick around other kids who are leaning in close to get candy? Yes, all those people you see who have a scar in their eyebrows? My guess is those are all pinata injuries.

Of course, the lure of the pinata lies in two things. First off, the person with the stick has a chance to be a hero to all of their friends and second, all the kids can't wait to see what all spills out of the pinyata. It does seem that a helpful adult does have to intervene to get the last of those goodies out of the structures

I have had adult experiences with pinatas too. During one radio station birthday party, we stuffed the pinata with t-shirts and dangled it over the audience until people could punch it open. The ever next year, and I remember this carnage quite clearly, we stuff a pony pinata with t-shirts and threw it directly into the audience with the end result looking a big like something colorful going through a wood chipper.

All of our pinata hijinks aside, in September of last year the world's largest pinata was created in San Antonio. It was a promotional stunt for the Hormel Company's "Mexican Style Street Corn Corn Nuts" in the shape of a large corn on the cob. This monster came in at sixty feet long and twenty feet wide. The average truck is about 18.4 feet long, so this would be three trucks bumper to bumper for the height and one truck across for the width.

This pinata was the world record holder for a short time, before it was usurped by a giant pinata in Mexico, but for now, at least Texas can claim to be the U.S. record holder.