'Doug' on a kitchen bench on the dwelling of Colin and Donna Craig-Brown close to Hamilton, New Zealand on Aug. 29, 2021. (Colin Craig-Brown through AP)
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND --
When is a potato not a potato?
When it is a tuber of a gourd, based on Guinness World Information.
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 along with his spouse Donna, mentioned it positive regarded and tasted like a potato. Thoughts you, he added, he is by no means tasted a gourd tuber.
"What are you able to say?" mentioned Craig-Brown. "We will not say we do not imagine 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 electronic mail final week.
"Pricey Colin," the e-mail begins, happening to say "sadly the specimen is just not a potato and is in actual fact the tuber of a sort of gourd. For that reason we do sadly need to disqualify the appliance."
The couple had named their discover Doug, which they took to spelling Dug, after the way in which it was unearthed. The tuber grew to become one thing of an area movie star, 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 7.8 kilograms (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 just below 5 kg.
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 is a cool character," Craig-Brown mentioned. "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 mentioned he isn't executed but with chasing the potato document. Dug was self-sown however Craig-Brown mentioned that with all his subsequent analysis into large potatoes, he is able to attempt to intentionally develop a record-breaking monster subsequent season.
And this time, it's going to positively be a potato.
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