About 1, 500 cooks used 1, 000kg (2, 200lbs) of ostrich meat to make the 1, 500m (4, 920ft) long sandwich.

BBC: Iran makes huge ostrich sandwich

Eventually the public got wise to the Ponziesque flavor to ostrich farming: You couldn't cover your costs selling meat or hides, so your only hope was to sell breeding pairs to bigger fools.

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