"World's Largest Potato" To Be DNA Tested To See If It's Actually A Potato
Posted on 01/21/2022 11:19:29 AM PST by Red Badger
https://youtu.be/La1s0aamtnc
What is potentially the world's largest potato is to be given a DNA test to determine if it's actually a potato.
Colin and Donna Craig-Brown – a couple from near Hamilton, New Zealand – found an absolute unit of a potato (please note that for ease, we are calling it a potato rather than "alleged potato") in their vegetable garden last August. The potato, which they have named Dug, weighed a whopping 7.8 kilograms (17.2 pounds), making it a contender for the largest spud in the world.
“We unearthed this hunk of tuber, and we thought to ourselves, ‘what is this? Was it some sort of a strange fungal growth?’” Colin told the Washington Post, when the potato made international news. They described how they kept digging, only to find more and more potato, before they finally dug the beast of a potato out.
The potato survived the first round of testing, which involved Colin eating a chunk and declaring "honey, it’s a bloody potato!”
New Zealand couple dig up 'Doug', potentially the world's heaviest potato – video - The Guardian https://t.co/PvvLXyyzT6 pic.twitter.com/xOVS161G6i
— Noah Ross (@drnoahross) November 6, 2021 The couple submitted the potato to the Guinness Book of World Records. Dug should easily beat the current world record of 4.98 kilograms (10.98 pounds), a baby potato in comparison – if, that is, Dug is actually a potato. The couple has now been told that the Guinness Book of World Records wants to verify that it is what they think it is via a DNA test before they can give Dug the record.
“Do they think I genetically modified it?" Colin said of the request. "It’s been a rollercoaster of emotion," adding that “while it’s extremely deflating, I want to prove them wrong. We will do everything they ask of us.”
The couple is concerned that Dug may lose weight as it waits for the record to be confirmed, and dries out and goes moldy. As they await the confirmation, they have moved Dug to a freezer to try and slow this process down.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/nov/05/new-zealand-couple-dig-up-doug-potentially-the-worlds-heaviest-potato-video
I don’t know about the largest potato. But I’ve seen the largest potato crisp in the world. And the largest potato masher collection as well. All in Blackfoot, Idaho at the Potato Museum. Exciting.
Fauci said Yes its a potato but unless its jabbed and boostered dont let it come to dinner ...
Joe said We have a pandemic of the unvaccinated spuds ...
“honey, it’s a bloody potato!” sounds like a rousing kiwi pub song. With a double entendre to liven the chorus in a Gilbert & Sullivan fashion
They’ll be using Brian Stelter’s DNA for comparison.
It’s not a potato
It’s a muskmelon that got its Covid shot
Came here expecting THIS pic to be much higher.
LOL!
Exactly what I thought. The marble rye from Seinfeld.
He’s been with the world
I’m tired of the soup du jour
He’s been with the world
Wanna end this prophylactic tour
Afraid nobody around here
Understands my potato
Think I’m only a spudboy
Looking for a real tomato
DEVO - Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
Mr. Haney will be glad to buy it for the princely sum of 25 dollars.
Looks like the Pachamama; maybe the Pope will place it on the altar at St. Peter’s.
It is POTATUS. The embodiment of Brandon.
Can it vote?
Test its DNA against Brian Stelter’s.
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