When is a potato not a potato? According to Guinness World Records, when it is gourd tuber.
a New Zealand The couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton, had their dreams mashed up after Guinness said scientific testing had found it was not actually a potato. Were.
Colin Craig-Brown, Joe Hit the tubers with the first hoe last August While gardening with his wife Donna, he said that it definitely looked and tasted like potatoes. Mind you, he said, he has never tasted a gourd tuber.
“what can you say?” Craig-Brown said. “We can’t say we don’t believe you, because we gave them the DNA material.”
After months of submitting photos and paperwork, the couple received bad news from Guinness in an email last week.
“Dear Colin,” begins the email, adding that “Sadly, the specimen is not a potato and is actually a gourd tuber. For this reason we unfortunately have to disqualify the application.”
The couple named their discovery Doug, which they spelled Doug, due to the way it was traced. The tuber became something of a local celebrity when the couple started posting pictures of it on Facebook with the hat and even a cart to pull it around.
An official weigh-in at a local farming store put Doug at 7.8 kg (17 lb), the equivalent of two sacks of normal potatoes or a small dog. The current Guinness record will stand, a 2011 monster from Britain that weighed just under 5 kilograms.
Craig-Brown remains a big believer in Doug, who still sits in his freezer.
“Whenever I pull out some sausage, I call him ‘Gidde.’ Huh?'”
“That’s not the biggest potato in the world.”