{"id":398131,"date":"2026-09-12T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398131\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:18:10","slug":"martin-county-breaks-world-record-with-400-foot-cuban-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398131\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County breaks world record with 400-foot Cuban sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Martin%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County <\/a>is now home to the world\u2019s longest Cuban sandwich after Old Havana Cafe and House of Hope built a 400-foot-long sandwich Saturday morning in Palm City.<\/p>\n<p>The massive sandwich broke the previous world record held by Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>A large crowd turned out to watch volunteers, and sandwich builders assemble the record-breaking Cuban sandwich and support the fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Martin County Commissioner Edward Ciampi was also on hand to complete the final measurement confirming the sandwich reached 400 feet.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/crime\/fort-pierce-police-investigate-bomb-threat-reported-at-hca-lawnwood-hospital-bomb-threat-lockdown-florida-news-florida-crime-local-news-local-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Pierce police investigate bomb threat reported at HCA Lawnwood Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event raised more than $30,000 for House of Hope, a Martin County nonprofit that provides food assistance, job training, education and other services aimed at helping local families become more self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the event was about more than setting a world record. It was also designed to bring the community together while raising awareness and support for House of Hope\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Martin County is now home to the world\u2019s longest Cuban sandwich after Old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-398131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}