Guess Merle by no means anticipated his document to be damaged with…Jell-O pictures.
Yearly throughout the School World Collection, Rocco’s Pizza in Omaha, Nebraska hosts a Jell-O shot problem for the competing groups. Followers show their allegiance by ordering Jell-O pictures of their group’s colours, all of the proceeds go to charity, and a tally is saved on a whiteboard to trace which group orders essentially the most pictures throughout the match.
Actually, as somebody who’s not likely into the CWS, it’s my favourite a part of the match.
After all it’s not likely a good combat when LSU is within the match, as a result of if you understand something about Tigers followers it’s that they know methods to drink. They’ve a well-earned fame for figuring out methods to get together, they usually all the time placed on fairly a present in Jell-O shot problem.
In truth, as of proper now, they’re main the problem for the 2025 School World Collection with practically double the subsequent closest group.
And again in 2023, that they had some assist from one rich Louisiana native to set a brand new document.
Todd Graves, founding father of quick meals fried rooster chain Elevating Cane’s, despatched LSU to the highest of the leaderboard – and into the document books – with a purchase order of 6,000 Jell-O pictures.
Every Jell-O shot on the restaurant value $5 a bit, that means that Graves shelled out $30,000 {dollars} for his spot within the document books – however the proceeds go to Heartland Meals Financial institution, in addition to meals pantries for all eight respective groups.
Within the course of, Graves not solely broke the Jell-O shot problem document, however he additionally broke a longstanding document that had, as much as that time, been held by nation music legend Merle Haggard.
Again in 1983, the Hag set a document again in 1983 when he ordered 5,095 “C.C. Waterbacks,” a shot of Canadian Membership whiskey with a water chaser, for patrons at Billy Bob’s Texas.
Merle purchased the pictures in honor of his twenty eighth hit tune, “C.C. Waterback,” from his 1982 duets album with George Jones, A Style Of Yesterday’s Wine.
The bar used round 40 gallons of whiskey for the spherical of drinks, and the bar tab for Merle’s huge order got here out to $12,737.50 – or $2.50 every. (If he had purchased the identical spherical of drinks as we speak it could have value him over $40k).
However when the bar proprietor, Billy Bob Barnett, introduced Merle with the test, he provided to purchase the Hag a drink on the home – and Merle took him up on it.
The acquisition earned Merle the Guiness World File for largest spherical of drinks ever purchased by one individual, a document that stood till 2016, when a U.Okay. brewery purchased 412 beers at a pub to rejoice Queen Elizabeth’s ninetieth birthday.
And I do know what you’re pondering: Wait, solely 412 beers? Merle Haggard purchased over 5,000 pictures.
Effectively apparently as a result of the beer order amounted to over 42 gallons, whereas Merle’s was slightly below 40, the brewery technically broke Merle’s document.
Yeah, it’s some BS.
However Merle’s place within the historical past books nonetheless stood as the biggest spherical of pictures ever purchased by one individual – till Graves broke it a pair years in the past.
