  | | | | A team of ambitious baking and culinary students from Vancouver Island University (VIU) is preparing to break a record that's as sweet as it is massive.
On May 17, they'll attempt to make the world's largest Nanaimo bar, a chocolatey dessert that has long been a staple of the region's culinary identity.
The idea was born a few years ago when students in the baking diploma program brainstormed ways to foster a locally inspired business.The project gained a competitive edge when the students learned that the current record for the world's largest Nanaimo bar wasn't held in its birthplace, but in Levack, Ont. There, in 2020, the Gorham family made a 240-kilogram, 2.4-metre-long Nanaimo bar.
"We're very proud of our Nanaimo bar here, and it kind of lit the spark that we should bring that record back to Nanaimo and do it at the university," Aron Weber, head of the baking and pastry arts programs at VIU, told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. | | | | | | | | |  | | | | It's not you — the internet really does suck. Novelist, blogger and noted internet commentator Cory Doctorow explains what happened to the internet and why you're tormented by ads, bots, algorithms, AI slop and so many pop-ups.
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