Posted on 08/06/2024 11:09:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A giant vegetable enthusiast from Iowa broke a world record when he harvested an eggplant weighing in at a staggering 8.33 pounds.
Dave Bennett from Davis County had his eggplant examined by Inspector Ivan Hankins of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship's Iowa Weights and Measures Bureau.
Hankins confirmed the 8.33-pound eggplant is the largest in the world.
"I've been growing eggplants for probably five years now," Bennett told Radio Iowa. "Two years ago I set the state record at 5.6 pounds."
He said Guinness World Records has been in contact to tell him his application for the record was approved. The previous record of 7.21 pounds was grown in England in 2022.
"Eventually I will have a plaque that says I grew the world's largest eggplant," Bennett said.
Garden Ping!....................Pass the Parmesan, please!................
Now he has to buy a whole lot of Parmesan.
More for him and still none for me.
Don’t tell Kentucky Ballistics.
When I was a boy, my mother made me eat eggplant. That was then.
That Eggplant is bigger than a Honeydew Melon!
It looks well formed and evenly purple ripe.
He probably turned it every so often, so the eggplant would not be proudly purple on one side and ghostly white on the side not facing the sun.
looks like the head of some of my classmates from high school ...
We have an enormous crop of cucumbers this year. I would guess almost 70 pounds. A friend has canned a lot of pickles. I’ve given a whole lot away and we’ve eaten a lot and Mr. Mercat is pretty sick of them. All from volunteer plants. The cuke vines are dying now and I’m tempted to just pull them up. One of the more remote vines was hidden behind and under the sweet potato vines and today we pulled four huge yellow cukes that were hiding. Those go to either our friends’ horses or to the compost barrel. I did grow egg plant one year. I got one small eggplant. I’m not a fan. But they have to be left to dry after salting to draw the water out of them.
looks about the size of Walz prostate
That’s one bigga mulinyan.
The bigger question is “Why?”.
Guinness...................
I like eggplant.
My wife hates it.......................
I like mine over easy....................
Zero nutritional value. Zero taste.
“The bigger question is “Why?”
Mother nature laughed. Too bad Roger Corman passed. He might have made a movie of it.
wy69
Never could stand the stuff.
Seems like all recipes are an attempt to covor the taste.
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