IRELAND: Whopper Cone Cork woman sets record for Ireland's tallest 99 ice cream cone - "13 inches"

CORK: One Irish woman just pulled Ireland’s tallest 99 - at a massive 13 inches. Beating the previous record holders by just one inch. Cork woman Kellie pulled the enormous ice cream cone in Oodles, Mahon Point in Co Cork on Thursday.

The previous record-holder was Curran's Service Station in Meath, when employee Sean Gaughran pulled yet another enormous cone.

As each member of the crew took a turn pulling a gigantic 99 ice cream, crowds began to swell inside the store. Kellie approached the device and put out an unbeatable effort. She was able to pull off an astounding 13-inch ice cream cone without the cone, just the whippy ice cream.

The tournament was held, he continued, "just to beat the record from up the country." "It isn't frequently sold there. We just extended an open invitation to everyone and anyone to visit and try pouring their own 99. At Oodles, Kellie was a staff member that ultimately performed the best."

Earlier in July, as Ireland's summer began, a Centra on Patrick's street was offering a gigantic 99 that customers dubbed "The Dermonator."

When Cork Beo lowered the measuring tape, it read 7.8 inches.

"99 ice cream cone" The name comes from the flake rather than the ice cream, 99 Cadbury Flake Corn Ice Cream, a Cadbury's spokesman said:

During the monarchy in Italy, the king had an elite guard of 99 soldiers. "99" was also known as really special or first class. Then anything truly unique or first class became known as a "99".

When Cadbury launched its small flake ice creams in 1930, the UK ice cream industry was predominately Italian. So we called our best flake "99" to appeal to the Italians."

"An ice cream cone served with Flake 99 is a UK favorite. The flake chocolate bar, manufactured and marketed by Cadbury, was first developed in the UK in the 1920s. Cadbury says that when excess chocolate was drained from molds used to make other chocolate bars, it created folded chocolate with flaky qualities.

The early "99 Flake" was a wafer "sandwich", not a flake bar inserted into a cone of ice cream. It consisted of a small chocolate flake sandwiched between two servings of ice cream and placed between two wafer biscuits.

In 1930, Cadbury began producing a smaller version of the standard flake bar, specifically for use in ice cream cones. These were marketed as 99 Flake and sold in loose boxes, individually wrapped like traditional Flake.

At most service stations, shops like Centra, Spar and local shops, UK and Ireland's favorite ice cream is available in various flavors in small, medium and large sizes including flake.