Hyderabad: Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, a couple from New Zealand, discovered a huge 7.9 kg potato in their farmland. The couple was cleaning their garden on a regular day when Colin’s hoe hit something large just below the ground. When they started digging further, Colin wondered if it was some kind of strange fungal growth under the ground. Colin then plucked it out with his garden fork to taste a bit of the great discovery – a potato!
“We could not believe it,” Donna said. “It was just great.” However, Donna describes the appearance of the potato as more of an ugly, mutant one. The couple, who referred to the potato as ‘Doug’, put it on an old weighing machine. It weighed a remarkable 7.9 kg (17.4 pounds) – the equivalent of a few bags of ordinary potatoes, or one small puppy.
The couple has now applied for the Guinness World Record for the world’s heaviest potato. The current Guinness World Records entry for the heaviest potato is a 2011 sample found in Britain that weighed just under 5kg. The couple say they have applied to Guinness to have Doug recognized and are waiting to hear back.
Colin, an amateur brewer, said he was eager to turn Doug into a nice drop of potato vodka as the large potato began to dry.
Source: Telangana Today