World's Heaviest Potato!

[highway_trekker]

Khalil Semhat insisted he had not used fertilizer to produce his potato

A farmer in southern Lebanon has dug up what might be the heaviest potato in the world.

"This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)," Khalil Semhat told the AFP news agency at his farm near Tyre, 85 kilometres (50 miles) south of Beirut.

"I've been working the land since I was a boy, and it's the first time I've seen anything like it."

Mr Semhat, 56, said he had to ask for help from a friend to get the huge vegetable out of the ground.

He insisted that he had used no fertilizer or other chemicals to produce it.

Mr Semhat said he hoped his potato will be recognised as the heaviest potato in the world.

The current world record, as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, is held by K Sloan of the Isle of Man in Britain for a potato weighing a mere 3.5 kg (7 lb 13 oz).

2008 is the International Year of the Potato, a project sponsored by the United Nations which aims to focus attention on the importance of the vegetable in providing food security and alleviating poverty.

[Güven]

Thats an potato ? :eek:

[highway_trekker]

^ seems so...

the source :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7771042.stm

[Danah]

Subhan allah.....it looks like a rock

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[highway_trekker]

:giggling: said so bluntly :D

[Re.TiReD]

Wow :skeleton:

Looks like a bunion

[highway_trekker]

;D whose bunions have you seen? :?

[Re.TiReD]

*zips mouth*

LOL nobodies....It's just a kool word :p

[Olive]

Wow! It'll take hours to peel that! :p

[Cabdullahi]

enough chips for all of LI members someone peel and il do the easy work.....and just fry

[Olive]

Mmm lol. Chips galore! :D

[Cabdullahi]

bro hanz u wanna fry or peel?? brother potato peeling is less dangerous and its fun:X......:D

[Güven]

stop dreaming (spamming) if you guys are hungry , go to your kitchen :p

[Olive]

Yeah no prob. I like peeling potatoes. :p

Don't blame me if you get irregular cut chips though. :D

[Yanal]

Wasteless posts:D Yhat looks like coral from deep in the sea. Doesn't it? Güven, and shouldn't this thread be emerged with the Tallest, shortest thread created by space chimp?

[Güven]

Nah It doesnt have too , this is quite an interesting article to have his own thread :)

and this is the HEAVIEST potato :D

[Olive]

C'mon... wouldn't you like chips from that potato? :D

[Tony]

looks like a tuma ! Heaviest and least appertising spud in the world

[Woodrow]

Quite interesting. Potatoes are amazing, even the "normal" ones. I favor the blue ones. There are several hundred varieties of them. Most have never been seen outside of South America.

[Nawal89]

Waw. Blue potatoes. In malaysia we have something like that. it's sweet tho.

and that huge potato looks more like a sweet potato or kassava.

[Olive]

Blue chips! :skeleton:

[Woodrow]

Waw. Blue potatoes. In malaysia we have something like that. it's sweet tho.

and that huge potato looks more like a sweet potato or kassava.

It does look like kassava. Actually Kassava and the various yams and sweet potatoes are in a different family from the Potato most often sold as potatoes.

[Yanal]

Ah next thing you know there's black patatos.

[Snowflake]

^there are - if you leave peeled potatoes out long enough

[Woodrow]

Actually there are black potatoes. The "Shetland Black" grown on the Shetland Islands is the best known. It is believed they are a variety of Peruvian Blue and washed ashore in the 1500s when the Spanish Armada was sunk.

Here is an interesting potato site:

http://potatoes.wsu.edu/varieties/vars-all.htm

[Periwinkle18]

wow i didn't know there were blue potatoes never seen them, but i hav seen the sweet potatoe n eaten them. Tht big potatoe looks lyke a rock. :p

[north_malaysian]

Waw. Blue potatoes. In malaysia we have something like that. it's sweet tho.

and that huge potato looks more like a sweet potato or kassava.

the Malaysian one is purplish/pinkish right?

[north_malaysian]

(Kerepek Ubi Keledek Ungu)
Purple Sweet Potato Chips

Purple Sweet Potato, Orange Sweet Potato, Yellow Sweet Potato and Banana in a "Serawa" (Malay dessert)

[UnknownOne]

Thats an potato ? :eek:

Yes...

That is a potato?

I actually said it out loud when I saw the image! :D

[Sahabiyaat]

that is the most ugliest spud ive ever seen!