This nearly 10-foot Gatsby sub is made by a South African restaurant with a taste for the supersized

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The idea came — as the nutty ones often do — over a few drinks in a bar.

A South African restaurant served up a 3-meter-long (9.8 feet) sandwich recently in the latest offering from an establishment with a taste for the supersized. The giant submarine sandwich produced by Annies Ladies Bar in Cape Town follows a burger it cooked up in 2019 that weighed in at a whopping 124 kilograms (273 pounds).

With no less than 10 layers of fillings, the sandwich tipped the scales at 65.27 kilograms (145 pounds) after it was balanced precariously on a weighing machine using a...