Wanted: A Large Biscuit Tin Can

During a radio program, a company of biscuit company manufacturers asked listeners to bake biscuits during a radio programme. They would offered to pay $10dollars a pound to buy the biggest biscuit. This competition caused a tremendous response. Shortly afterwards, all shapes and sizes of biscuits began to arrive at the factory. A woman sent a biscuit which that weighed 500 pounds on in a wheel barrow wheelbarrow. A little later, a man carried a biscuit which that occupied filled the boot entire trunk of his car. All the biscuits were weighed carefully. The largest was 713 pounds. It seemed that this would win the prize for sure. But just before the competition is was over, a huge biscuit was sent to the factory by a lorry truck. The biscuit, which weighedweighing almost 2,400 pounds, had been baked by a college student. He had used thousands of pounds of various ingredients. It was so heavy that a crane was had to be used to remove it from the lorry truck. The company manufacturers paid much more than they had expected, for they bought the biscuit for $24,000 dollars.