California town loses largest-pie title to Ohio

WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) -- The students of Windsor High School baked hard and baked long, but it wasn't enough to retain the town's title for the world's largest pumpkin pie.
The 468-pound, 6-foot-4-inch diameter culinary concoction, shown off Sunday at the Windsor Farmers Market, was the town's latest effort to take the Guinness World Record, which it has successfully held for the past two years.
Little did they know that another town had much bigger plans up its sleeve.
Earlier this month, bakers in New Bremen, Ohio, made a pumpkin pie that was 12 feet 4 inches in diameter and weighed 1,500 pounds -- more than three times heavier than Windsor's effort.
Marie Ganister, the culinary arts instructor at Windsor High, still was quick to praise her students' work, cut into more than 400 slices, pointing out that their pie used farm-fresh milk, but New Bremen's pie was made using condensed milk.
"I wouldn't use condensed milk if I was camping!" Ganister said, sneering.