The blog Whatever It Is I'm Against It has been reporting of late on New York Times reporting of 100 years ago and today picks up the story of a 92-pound mince pie...well, you can read the story, as the Times had it, here.
William Howard Taft, U.S. president from 1909 to 1913, weighed in at more than 300 pounds and was distinguished, therefore, as the heaviest U.S. president ever elected, although Wikipedia hastens to point out, this means physically heaviest, not anything else.
The town of Traverse City, Michigan, baked a 28,350-pound cherry pie in 1987 but by then U.S. presidents were too skinny to care.
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