Cancel your plans to drive over the Hawthorne bridge on August 6, when the PDX Bridge Festival‘s second annual “Brunch on the Bridge” returns, covering the bridge with 28,000 square feet of grass, trees, picnic tables, and lawn games—tickets were set to go on sale at noon today:

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In addition to all the barefoot cornholing and picnic blanket lounging, this year Voodoo Doughnuts is going for the Guinness Book record for “The World’s Largest Box of Doughnuts.” In order to do so, they will need to surpass the record set by The Kuwait Food Co. Americana in 2009, who procured “A Krispy Kreme box weighing 135 kg (297 lb 10 oz).”

Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and...

6 replies on “Can Voodoo Doughnut Make The Guinness Book of World Records?”

  1. It’s 2 PM. Are tickets sold out already? I can’t find the link on the site.

    Also, what does Voodoo Donuts and the Guiness Book of World Records have to do with the PDX Bridge Festival?

  2. “Also, what does Voodoo Donuts and the Guiness Book of World Records have to do with the PDX Bridge Festival? “

    Is the Festival too sacred to stage Guiness records?

  4. @ WhatFreshHell: Is the festival trying to stage a record? Or is Voodoo trying to get the record at the festival? I can’t tell. The article doesn’t say, and the way it’s written it sounds completely unrelated. That was my point.

  6. Lets just hope they don’t have a donut eating contest….for a town supposedly awash with hipsters Ive noticed more than a few of our Portlandians are on the chubby side. Or maybe the’re FAT hipsters. IDK

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