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If you search South Carolina on the Guinness World Records website 100 or so items come up, including the largest human image of a safety vest (594 people) at Boeing in July 2018.
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People tying bow ties at the University of South Carolina Dance Marathon in 2014.
Shag dance, hottest pepper (Pepper X from the people who brought us the former record holder Carolina Reaper), longest candy wrapper chain, largest collection of toasters, buttons.
The list goes on and on. Guinness calls it officially amazing.
Here are a few of the most recent inductees.
Big Percy
The most recent is the creation of Carrey Alston of Charleston. It is a sweetgrass basket as big as a generator. It’s known as Big Percy and is on display at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.
Alston is a fifth-generation sweetbasket weaver and his work has been displayed at the Smithsonian.
“I wanted my piece for the Museum to stand out more than any other basket that I’ve done, because I wanted my state to have bragging rights for the largest basket ever made,” Alston said when the record was verified earlier this year.
Measured by Cox & Dinkins Inc, a surveying and mapping company, it is 44.1 inches long, 43.3 inches wide, and 52.6 inches tall.
“This historic designation for “Big Percy” highlights both the artistry and cultural legacy of the Lowcountry’s centuries-old sweetgrass basket weaving tradition,” the museum said in a news release.
The sweetgrass used in the basket came from the sweetgrass field located within the African Ancestors Memorial Garden of the International African American Museum.
Longest tail
Sweetie, a miniature horse of Summerville, was honored as having the longest tail of her breed. It was 5 feet 11.26 inches, longer than she is tall.
Owned by Risa Formisano, Sweetie was 35 years old when the record was awarded in 2024.
Formisano got Sweetie in 2012 to comfort two horses after the death of another horse.
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Chopsticks
Jeff Locke of Charleston assembled the longest line of chopsticks, some 5,259 in all, in 2024. That would be about three-quarters of a mile long.
“Jeff has dreamed of achieving a Guinness World Records title since before the internet existed,” Guinness said. “His family would get the GWR book for him every year for Christmas or his birthday.”
He planned for several months before making his attempt at the record in 2024.
Catch a Frisbee
Sully the Border Collie owns the record for catching the most Frisbees in three minutes. That would be 22.
Scott Howard of Simpsonville played Frisbee with Sully whenever Sully came to visit. Sully is owned by Howard’s son and daughter-in-law.
“Scott thought it would be fun and memorable to attempt a record title together,” Guinness said.
They achieved the record in December 2022.
An aged parrot
That would be Spoodles, who in March was named the oldest living parrot at the age of 32 years and 86 days.
The Charleston bird is a plum-headed parakeet, who was given to Amanda Beth by her mother in 1997.
“Today, he remains the light of the house — chirping away in synchronization at the microwave beeping sound or greeting family members as they pass by with a cheerful “pretty bird!”’ Guinness said.
Largest iced tea
That would be in Summerville and it was 2,524 gallons, brewed in 2016 for the annual Iced Tea Festival (this year it is Sept. 19).
Organizers used 210 pounds of loose leaf tea and 1,700 pounds of sugar (Dixie Crystals of course).
Summerville is heralded as the birthplace of sweet tea.
There is a video of the record-breaking tea on their website.
The tea was held by Mason, a 15-foot-tall monument to the record located next to Town Hall.
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