Photos: Making the World's Longest BLT at Iron Barley, 8.9.09

The fifth-annual Tomato Fest at Iron Barley in South St. Louis wrapped up Sunday with owner Tom Coghill and a crew of 90 volunteers working to create the world's longest bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, at 179-feet, two-inches. (That's a lot of bacon -- 500 pounds of savory, crispy, delicious bacon.) The previous record was 169 feet. Video, photos and more BLT stats after the jump. (All photos by Tom Lampe; check out his Flickr page, too.)

Inside the beast...
Iron Barley owner Tom Coghill.

Thanks to Bill Streeter for the video. 1,280 pounds of tomatoes.
100 heads of iceberg lettuce. Mayonnaise spreaders ready to be used to lather on 48 gallons of mayo and 80 pounds of butter.
Flame on!