A couple who made a spudtacular find in their garden decided to submit it to Guinness World Records. But seven months and one DNA test later, they received some depressing news.
When New Zealand couple Colin and Donna Craig-Brown first discovered the gigantic vegetable in their garden last August, they knew they had something special on their hands. Dug is named for how the two of them unearthed it -- by digging. They decided to submit Dug to Guinness World Records, and seven months and one DNA test later, they received some depressing news. "Sadly the specimen is not a potato and is in fact the tuber of a type of gourd.
Life above groundA longtime gardener, Craig-Brown found Dug when he was tending to his plants and struck a hard object under the soil. After pulling out the monstrous vegetable, he was"gobsmacked" at the size -- 7.9 kilograms , to be exact.The current potato record-holder is Peter Glazebrook, a United Kingdom resident who grew a spud weighing 4.98 kilograms in 2011.
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