Guinness rejects a giant potato and returns it to its owners!
The dream of a New Zealand couple who thought they had discovered the world's largest potato on their small farm was shattered, after Guinness World Records analyzed the sample to find that it was a pumpkin tuber and not a potato.
The couple had sent pictures and samples of the potato they discovered in their home, to the Guinness Book of Records for scientific tests, but the encyclopedia’s response came months later that the sample sent was a tuber of a type of pumpkin and does not belong to the category of potatoes, to exclude the couple from obtaining a record Entitles their potato to win.
"It definitely tastes like a potato," said Colin Craig Brown, who discovered the tuber when he was gardening with his wife, Donna.
The couple had named the tuber Doug after the tuber they discovered, and they documented the idea of entering it into the Guinness Book of Records, and the couple constantly publishes pictures of the tuber on Facebook, and this tuber weighs 7.8 kilograms.
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