When is a potato not a potato?
When it’s a tuber of a gourd, in accordance with Guinness World Data.
A New Zealand couple who believed they'd dug up the world’s largest potato within the backyard of their small farm close to Hamilton have had their goals turned to mash after Guinness wrote to say that scientific testing had discovered it wasn’t, in actual fact, a potato in any case.
Colin Craig-Brown, who first hit the tuber with a hoe final August when gardening together with his spouse, Donna, stated it certain regarded and tasted like a potato. Thoughts you, he added, he’s by no means tasted a gourd tuber.
“What are you able to say?” stated Craig-Brown. “We will’t say, ‘We don’t consider you,’ as a result of we gave them the DNA stuff.”
After months of submitting pictures and paperwork, the couple received the dangerous information from Guinness in an e mail final week.
“Expensive Colin,” the e-mail begins, and goes on to say that “sadly the specimen isn't a potato and is in actual fact the tuber of a kind of gourd. Because of this we do sadly should disqualify the applying.”
The couple had named their discover Doug, then determined to spell it “Dug,” after the way in which it was unearthed. The tuber grew to become one thing of an area superstar after the couple started posting pictures of it on Fb with a hat on and even constructed a cart to tow it round.
An official weigh-in at an area farming retailer put Dug at 17 kilos, equal to a few sacks of normal potatoes or one small canine. The prevailing Guinness document will stand, a 2011 monster from Britain that weighed in at slightly below 11 kilos.
Colin Craig-Brown stays a giant believer in Dug, who nonetheless sits of their freezer.
“I say ‘gidday’ to him each time I pull out some sausages. He’s a cool character,” Craig-Brown stated. “Every time the grandchildren come spherical, they are saying, ‘Can we see Dug?’”
“Dug is the destroyer from Down Below,” Craig-Brown added. “He's the world’s largest not-a-potato.”
Craig-Brown stated he’s not performed but with chasing the potato document. Dug was self-sown, however Craig-Brown stated that with all his subsequent analysis into large potatoes, he’s able to attempt to develop a record-breaking monster subsequent season.
And this time, it would positively be a potato.
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