In writing about the press’s love of superlatives, San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Logan Jenkins has offered a compilation of San Diego stuff that claims to be the largest. Among my favorites:
– World’s Largest Skateboard Ramp, a creation of Brazilian pro skateboarder Bob Burnquist. Located on a 12-acre farm in Vista (in northern San Diego County), it’s longer than a football field. Typical top speed is reportedly 55 mph.
– World’s Largest Military Supermarket: the commissary at the San Diego Naval Base at 32nd Street. It serves about a quarter of a million military families.
– World’s Largest Lemon. Fake lemon, that 
is. This oldie but still-juicy is 10 feet wide and 3,000 pounds and stands at the corner of Broadway and Main Street in the eastern suburb of Lemon Grove, which also claims to have the “Best Climate on Earth.” (Try proving them wrong.)
