Posted on 02/17/2022 1:13:40 AM PST by nickcarraway
An Israeli farmer earned a Guinness World Record when he harvested a massive strawberry that weighed 10.19 ounces.
Guinness said Ariel Chahi, whose family owns the Strawberries in the Field business in Kadima-Zoran, Israel, holds the record for the world's heaviest strawberry after his enormous fruit weighed in at 10.19 ounces, beating the previous record of 8.82 ounces.
The strawberry is of the Ilan variety, which was first bred by Nir Dai, a researcher from the Israel's Agricultural Research Organization.
Dai, who was among the witnesses at the weighing of Chahi's strawberry, credited the strawberry's size to unusually cold temperatures in January and February.
"The strawberry developed slowly for more than 45 days from flowering, which caused its large size at full ripening stage," Dai told Guinness.
Don’t need many of them to make a shortcake.
It’s beautiful!
Imagine a stack of pancakes (perhaps made with rolled oats and some cottage cheese for that cheesecake-y feeling) surrounded by a semi-circle of mixed berries - some raspberries, some blackberries, some blueberries - and this gorgeous strawberry perched atop that stack.
I already have a stomach ache just thinking about eating that dipped fully in chocolate.
What a mutant. And my wife’s breathing down my neck, clutching a tub of Cool Whip...........LOL
That was my first thought!!! How gorgeous !!
Smaller ones taste better.
It looks like multiple tiny berry’s fused together. That happens with some of our tomatoes.
Looks like octuplets.
The really big ones never seem to get ripe all the way through; the outside starts to spoil before the middle ripens.
Looks like that to me also. A case of buds being pulled together? Perhaps doused with some sort of helping agent that assists in melding?
That kind of thing happens naturally, I don’t know about trying to manipulate it. I get a few tomato multiples just like that every year.
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