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Kyle Field banana split record!

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11:54a, 2/27/23
April 1980 - On April 26, 1980 the first banana split to enter the Guinness Book of World's Records was built on Kyle Field at Texas A&M University. The split was one mile, 575 yards long and included over 34,000 ice cream scoops, 11,000 bananas, 500 gallons of topping and over 100 pounds of nuts.

We need to reclaim this title!

Sorry for so many pictures. I found photos of this event in a family album and wanted to share them. I love the old pics of Kyle and it's amazing to see how much it's changed. I remember hopping over that horseshoe wall!












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11:57a, 2/27/23
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You know it's the off-season when….
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12:01p, 2/27/23
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Some of us might have been there…
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12:11p, 2/27/23
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This is how people entertained themselves pre internet.
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12:16p, 2/27/23
Don't hang your hat on this record. Jumbo will probably blow this lead too.
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In reply to rootube • 12:17p, 2/27/23
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rootube said:
This is how people entertained themselves pre internet.
They put up new speakers in Kyle I think that spring or maybe as late as '82 and played Evita loud enough for me to pick out strains from Shuhmacher. My roommate and I walked to the MSC and by All Faiths could hear clearly and by the C could hear loudly (and clearly.)

Now that was pre-internet entertainment…
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1:55p, 2/27/23
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Just imagine how hard that would be to do today if they had to include the bevel?
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2:13p, 2/27/23
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Today, the average student looks like they have consumed that banana split single handedly.
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2:18p, 2/27/23
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I call BS on over a mile of ice cream being constructed outdoors in College Station in a non-winter season and having it resemble anything like ice cream by the end.
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In reply to Ugly • 2:36p, 2/27/23
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Ugly said:
I call BS on over a mile of ice cream being constructed outdoors in College Station in a non-winter season and having it resemble anything like ice cream by the end.
That's fair…
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In reply to greg.w.h • 2:44p, 2/27/23
greg.w.h said:
Ugly said:
I call BS on over a mile of ice cream being constructed outdoors in College Station in a non-winter season and having it resemble anything like ice cream by the end.
That's fair…
And I don't believe it was one mile, 575 yards long.
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3:01p, 2/27/23
Does anyone else look at old pictures and wonder how many of the people shown are still alive?

I know it's morbid.
Let's go, Brandon!
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3:10p, 2/27/23
"Texas Aggies" in the endzone. Those were the days...
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In reply to NoahAg • 3:18p, 2/27/23
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NoahAg said:
Does anyone else look at old pictures and wonder how many of the people shown are still alive?

I know it's morbid.


1980??? Most are still kicking with slightly larger midsections and perhaps less pronounced feathered haircuts.
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In reply to greg.w.h • 3:39p, 2/27/23
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greg.w.h said:
Some of us might have been there…
The year I graduated. And, while I was "there," I wasn't THERE.
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In reply to Sharpshooter • 4:25p, 2/27/23
Sharpshooter said:
greg.w.h said:
Some of us might have been there…
The year I graduated. And, while I was "there," I wasn't THERE.

Me either. If we had Facebook we wouldn't have missed this momentous day. Sad isn't it.
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In reply to NoahAg • 5:05p, 2/27/23
Gen x hasn't done a damn thing except pat themselves on the back
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5:43p, 2/27/23
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Banana hammock out Kyle field


Eta: wonder if the ice cream was provided by the on campus creamery
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In reply to Ugly • 6:13p, 2/27/23
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I call BS on over a mile of ice cream being constructed outdoors in College Station in a non-winter season and having it resemble anything like ice cream by the end.
Could have been Dippin' Dots.
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In reply to PlanoAg98 • 6:27p, 2/27/23
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I call BS on over a mile of ice cream being constructed outdoors in College Station in a non-winter season and having it resemble anything like ice cream by the end.
Could have been Dippin' Dots.
Back in the days of live TV commercials, in the 1950s, scoops of mashed potatoes were substituted for ice cream, under the hot studio lights. Might've been that.
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In reply to AgTrip • 6:28p, 2/27/23
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April 1980 - On April 26, 1980 the first banana split to enter the Guinness Book of World's Records was built on Kyle Field at Texas A&M University. The split was one mile, 575 yards long and included over 34,000 ice cream scoops, 11,000 bananas, 500 gallons of topping and over 100 pounds of nuts.

Surprised they didn't hang this title outside of Kyle.
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In reply to Ugly • 7:41p, 2/27/23
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Ugly said:
I call BS on over a mile of ice cream being constructed outdoors in College Station in a non-winter season and having it resemble anything like ice cream
That was my fish year. Yes, it was a runny blob that used to be ice cream. By the time I was given my spoon there wasn't much to eat. I drank most of mine.

Now y'all have to look up how piles of banana peels mysteriously appeared at Memorial Stadium on the 40 acres!!!
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8:51p, 2/27/23
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Didn't the last time we tried to set a world record at Kyle Field, the Guinness people rejected it because they said it was planned?

Can't remember if it was largest student section, or largest college football game attendance, or loudest game, but it was sometime in the last 20 years.
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8:53p, 2/27/23
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No banana bevel to be seen
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In reply to saw em off • 12:18a, 2/28/23
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saw em off said:
"Texas Aggies" in the endzone. Those were the days...
Plus, no bevels to be found anywhere in the vicinity of Kyle Field. WHOOP!
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3:26a, 2/28/23
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Been a long time, but I remember there being a bad smell in the stadium after that
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6:53a, 2/28/23
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I remember my dad telling me about being a part of this when I was very young. Thanks for posting
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7:43a, 2/28/23
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I can't even get up to a mile in those pictures. Maybe 500-600 yards (very optimistically) in the design on the field, and then another thousand from wrapping around the track twice. Where's the rest?
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In reply to evestor1 • 7:52a, 2/28/23
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Don't hang your hat on this record. Jumbo will probably blow this lead too.


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In reply to JJxvi • 7:58a, 2/28/23
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It is coming in through the tunnel in the horseshoe. So who knows how far it goes outside the stadium
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In reply to AgBQ-00 • 9:33a, 2/28/23
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AgBQ-00 said:
It is coming in through the tunnel in the horseshoe. So who knows how far it goes outside the stadium
I see. Makes sense. It looked to me like it ended there.
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11:32a, 2/28/23
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In reply to greg.w.h • 9:44p, 6/4/24
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In reply to Ugly • 9:49p, 6/4/24
Not BS, I was in APO (Alpha Phi Omega) and we built it. The track was a quarter mile - the split went around the track 4 times, then into the center for the rest. Hard to tell in the pictures. We were in the Guinness Book of World Records - they had a rep there to verify.
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