I’m just a sucker for “World’s Largest” oddities across the globe. Whenever I’m near one, I urge whoever I’m with to make the detour. “Come on,” I’ll say. “This is probably your only opportunity to see the world’s largest thumbtack.” So we’ll make the detour, and stand in front of some massive concrete representation of a random household item thinking, Good grief, this really IS the largest thumbtack. Just look at it! But it’s not really a thumbtack. You can’t use it to spear items to a wall. This is disappointing.
This is why I especially enjoy the world’s largest paper cup in Riverside, California, because you can actually use it to hold liquids. It’s just too bad the building in which the cup is a part of is no longer in the cup business, but now some sort of furniture liquidation store. Unless the owners can convince people that the world’s largest cup is actually the world’s largest upside-down lamp shade, this monstrosity might be near its last days.
Speaking of large cups, I happen to be lucky enough to live just down the road from the Solo Cup Company’s headquarters in Springfield, Missouri. Outside they have a gigantic cup — with straw! — that just might be in the running for the world’s largest if the Riverside furniture company decides to level the current champion. Oh well, at least we still have the world’s largest fork. Nobody can take that away from us. Unless someone builds a bigger one, of course.
I know what you’re thinking. Man, enough with the World’s Largest posts. Who really cares? I mean, look at that picture. Not only is it a boring cup in front of a boring building in a boring setting, it’s a freakin’ cup! With the end of this post, I promise to you, dear Gadling readers, that I will no longer write about the world’s larges this, or the world’s largest that. We’re a dying breed — lovers of over-sized things. Instead, I’ll just point you to WorldsLargesThings.com and leave the choice up to you.