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
Oh no Stacey Abrams lost her title.
LOL
Key word is “was”. Here in the real world, he’s still the #1 #2.
If you are talking about the Idaho potato on a flatbead semi, it is made out of fiberglass.... i saw it up close during an air show in Mountain Home.
I grew one that was over 8 pounds once, and that was in heavy soil with way too many weeds. It was also my first attempt at growing potatoes. I think I was 14.
Never been able to grow them that big since.
I hope they save some for planting.
It's a walrus doing an impression of Rodin's "The Thinker".
Blackfoot: that’s big tater country. I used to load Idaho Spuds——for JR Simplot the tater tot guy-—into Idaho Spud bags-—in Oregon. I was in high school and that was probly my first contact with big time, lying thru the teeth, advertising.
It’s a tumah!!
Kind of looks like the statue known as the The Thinker, if statues could get fat.
I stared at that way too long.
Then I started laughing.
Where is the “e”?
“Over whether or not this po-ta-ter’s a dud !”
No, no, not a dud, a DUG....
But, my dear Flaglady...I couldn't rhyme my "dud" with your "dug".
However, despite your tin ear, I'm sending you a big hug !
Chug-a-lug !
Leni
“Where’s the e”?
I was wondering that myself -
singular: potato
plural: potatoes
Which joke do you like best?
1. I love you a tot, you attractive potato! You should say I love you a lot more! Especially to your potato head!
2. I miss you! I’ll see you tater!
3. My love for you sprouts more and more every day!
4. We’re a perfect mash!
5. You’re the tater to my tot. I miss you a lot!
Freeper’s note: I am tired; I am goin’ to bed
Looks like a spud to me. I once got a 50 lb gunny sack full of potatoes, there were only about 35 potatoes in it. They were culls. The ones they sold to Ore-Ida for fries, but not for people looking to have some in the larder.
Taters gonna tate.
3 Mile Island potato
They just wanted to know if Dug was a common tater.
Dat dere wass a funny one!
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