UC Berkeley students roll a giant serpent of sushi

A series of tables covered with ingredients to make sushi snakes along the walkway near Sather Gate on the campus of the University of California as students work to construct a 330-foot-long (100.5 meters) California sushi roll on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Berkeley, Calif., in an attempt to break the world record. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, D. Ross Cameron)

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Ming Hwang, left, executive chef at Slippery Fish sushi restaurant in Emeryville, works with UC-Berkeley students near Sather Gate on the campus of the University of California as they construct a 330-foot-long (100.5 meters) California sushi roll on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Berkeley, Calif., in an attempt to break the world record. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, D. Ross Cameron)

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Students roll the sushi as they work to construct a 330-foot-long (100.5 meters) California roll on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Berkeley, Calif., in an attempt to break the world record. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, D. Ross Cameron)

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The Associated Press Updated 8:06 AM Monday, November 9, 2009

BERKELEY, Calif. — It was the roll of a lifetime.

Hundreds of amateur sushi chefs at the University of California, Berkeley got their hands fishy Sunday as they assembled a 330-foot California roll.

A university spokeswoman says Sunday's rice-and-seaweed monstrosity is the largest of its kind ever rolled, surpassing a 300-foot California roll made in Hawaii in 2001.

Students used 200 pounds of rice, 80 pounds of avocado, 80 pounds of cucumber and 180 pounds of fish. And in a nod to the school's scores of vegetarians, the final 15 feet contained tofu instead of seafood.

Members of the Japanese Graduate&Researchers Society dressed as ninjas started the giant project.

The stunt was part of a series of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the school's Center for Japanese Studies.

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Information from: The Oakland Tribune, http://www.oaklandtribune.com

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November 09, 2009 01:02 PM EST

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