The world’s biggest crab cake didn’t look like much by the time a crowd of thousands at HonFest ’09 got through with it June 13.

Volunteers cooked it starting early in the morning and started dishing it out with ice cream scoops into $10 sandwiches in the early afternoon. For $20, you also got a T-shirt saying you had helped eat the world’s biggest crab cake.

Now, organizers will submit paperwork to the Guinness Book of World Records, which took about 18 months to certify the current world’s biggest crab cake, in Delaware at Dover Downs in 2007, according to Jim Cupp, regional sales manager for the seafood processor Handy International in Crisfield, Md. He holds the current world’s record and was at HonFest on Saturday trying to break his own record.

The crab cake was a new wrinkle in an otherwise tried and true HonFest, a two-day event in Hampden that had all its usual elements, including live music, lots of food and crafts, Best Hon, Honette and Little Miss Hon contests, perfect weather and big beehive hairdos and pink feather boas.

And one other kind of boa — a boa constrictor that was wrapped around the neck of an unidentified man who showed it to all comers, including a woman with a baby, who kept a respectful distance.

“I have a python at home, too,” the man said.

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