Editing BLT (section)

==In culture==

===United States===
In 1963, [[pop art]] sculptor [[Claes Oldenburg]] created ''Giant BLT'', a [[soft sculpture]] representing the sandwich, now in the collection of the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/WatchAndListen/445|title=Whitney Focus presents Claes Oldenburg's "Giant BLT"|access-date=28 August 2014|website=Whitney Museum of American Art}}</ref><ref name="claes">{{cite web|url=http://www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico213407-123848.html|title=Claes Oldenburg / Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich)|publisher=AMICA library|access-date=3 February 2011}}</ref> It measures {{convert|32|x|39|in|cm}} and uses vinyl, [[Ceiba pentandra|kapok]] and wood, painted in acrylic. Every time it is moved, it must be restacked, which means it varies between exhibits. The artist has said that he has not set it up personally since its creation in 1963.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kino|first=Carol|title=Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/arts/design/17kino.html|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=15 May 2009}}</ref>

In 2003, Michele Anna Jordan set a record for the world's largest BLT, which measured {{convert|108|ft}} in length.<ref name=MSNBC/> It was prepared at a 2003 tomato festival in [[Sonoma County, California]] and had an area of {{convert|14,976|sqin}}.<ref name="pd"/> In 2008, Marie Ganister and Glenda Castelli created a {{convert|146|ft}} BLT – a sandwich originally planned with Jordan.<ref name="pd">{{cite news|title=There's a beef over that 146-foot BLT|url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2171206|access-date=18 February 2011|newspaper=PressDemocrat|date=9 September 2008|archive-date=31 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231181535/https://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp%3Fcid%3D2171206|url-status=dead}}</ref> The record was broken again by the Iron Barley restaurant in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], with a BLT measuring {{convert|179|ft}}, and is currently held by Bentley Dining Services for their 2009 attempt, measuring {{convert|209|ft|1|in}}.<ref>{{cite news|last=Schultz|first=Brian|title=Bentley cooks up world record BLT|url=http://media.www.lhueagleye.com/media/storage/paper485/news/2009/11/05/News/Bentley.Cooks.Up.World.Record.Blt-3824011.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713203319/http://media.www.lhueagleye.com/media/storage/paper485/news/2009/11/05/News/Bentley.Cooks.Up.World.Record.Blt-3824011.shtml|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=[[Eagle Eye]]|date=5 November 2009|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 July 2011}}</ref>

===United Kingdom===
In 2004, the ''[[New Statesman]]'' reported that the sandwich chosen by a politician as his "favourite" is loaded with political symbolism. For example, it suggested that a [[chicken tikka]] sandwich would be a "gentle nod to an imperial past and a firm statement of a multicultural present and future". The article went on to explain that the then [[Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)|Leader of the Opposition]] [[William Hague]] had accused the then [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]] of being a hypocrite with regards to food, telling one portion of society that his favourite meal was [[fish and chips]] and another that it was a fresh [[fettuccine]] dish. The conclusion of the article was that Blair chose the BLT as his favourite sandwich, which appeals to all classes.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vigor|first=Anthony|title=Exposed by his sandwich|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/node/159535|access-date=11 February 2011|newspaper=[[New Statesman]]|date=12 April 2004}}</ref>