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World's largest bowl of guacamole mixed up in Mexico

The 13th annual Avocado Festival in Tancítaro, Mexico, saw a Guinness World Record broken in the form of a 14,991-pound serving of guacamole.

The record attempt, organized by the Local Plant Health Board of Tancítaro, featured more than 1,000 local growers and residents working together to mix up the massive bowl of guac in just under 2 1/2 hours.

The previous record of 10,961 pounds was set in Peribán, Mexico, in 2022. Tancítaro had held the record prior to 2022.

"This moment belongs to the thousands of Michoacán families whose livelihoods are rooted on avocado farms," Raul E. Martínez Pulido, president of Association of Avocado Exporting Producers and Packers of Mexico, said in a news release.

"This achievement reflects the collective strength of our industry — from the growers to the teams who ensure quality and efficiency across the supply chain," he said. "It represents the unity, discipline and hard work that define how we operate every day, and the dedication we collectively bring to reaching new heights, including reclaiming the new Guinness World Record and a historic season of more than 2.5 billion pounds of Mexican avocados reaching the U.S. market."

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'Saccharine' cast related to diet pill horror movie

LOS ANGELES, May 21 (UPI) — Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald and Madeleine Madden said they related to the theme of their horror movie Saccharine, in theaters Friday. Francis plays Hana, a medical student who ingests human ash to lose weight.

In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Francis said the metaphor of weight loss obsession turning horrific was easy to imagine. Natalie Erika James wrote and directed the film.

"This subject matter is already a horror movie," Francis said. "Does that make sense? It just did not seem like a big stretch."

Hana analyzes the compound of an expensive diet pill and discovers human ash is the main component. With budgetary constraints, she manufactures her own pills using her school's cadaver.

Hana loses weight dramatically but also sees ghostly visions of the cadaver. James began writing the film in 2019, before Ozempic and other weight loss drugs became so common.
"It's so much drawn from my personal experience of growing up with parents who were really opposites in terms of how they related to their bodies and food and all of the mixed messaging that I grew up with," James said. "In some ways, it's been in the works for decades."

Hana's mother has been pressuring her to eat less prior to the pills. Her father, whom the audience meets later in the film, triggers other familial issues with Hana.

Hana's classmate, Josie (Macdonald), eventually calls out the underlying issue. At Hana's thinnest, Josie tells Hana she won't feel better about herself no matter how much weight she loses.

"Obviously, Josie is pointing out this overarching fact that we all know realistically, but it's not that easy to just come true," Macdonald said. "Getting to say that was great because you kind of know it's true but it doesn't mean that you feel it every day."

At the same time as the pills, Hana signs up for a fitness study with Alanya (Madden). Even Alanya becomes alarmed at how fast Hana loses weight.

While Madden said she does exercise and eats healthy like Alanya, she struggled with seeing herself as the film's fitness guru. Madden credited James and her costars for having sensitive conversations about body image.

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