She had to make sure it was edible before she could give it away. So, on Saturday night, she cooked it with some tomato sauce and added mushrooms, then served it over pasta. “It was good,” Lili Coleman said Monday. “Spicy, but I like spicy food.”

She was referring to her portion of The World’s Largest Meatball — the 1,707-pound, 8-ounce, concoction of the Italian-American Club of Hilton Head — which set a Guinness World Record on Saturday afternoon at Meatball Madness and the Italian Heritage Festival at Shelter Cove Community Park. The meatball took more than a year to plan, according to club president John De Cecco. It was a team effort.