The weight of the knobbly root vegetable has not yet been verified by the Guinness Book of Records, but could be several times heavier than the existing record holder – a 7lb 13oz spud grown in the Isle of Man.
“I’ve been working the land since I was a boy, and it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like it,” said Khalil Semhat, 56, a farmer near the city of Tyre 50 miles south of Beirut.
Describing his find as a “giant”, Mr Semhat displayed the potato for a photographer on a large set of scales.
The tuber was so heavy Mr Semhat said he had to call on a friend to help him pry it from the ground, according to AFP.
His farm, damaged during Israel’s heavy bombardment of south Lebanon during a brief war in summer 2006, mostly grows potatoes and bananas.
Despite the freakish size of the vegetable, Mr Semhat insisted he had used no artificial fertilisers: “I didn’t use any chemicals at all,” he said.
Mr Semhat hopes to have the potato registered by Guinness in its next book of records.
Source: Telegraph
January 5th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Mmmm, that looks like it makes some good taters
January 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Why dont you people grow more such ones and stuck them all up the Israily ass
March 10th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Oh gosh~ That’s one thing a normal person will never think about
August 29th, 2009 at 4:16 am
wow that’s really big!!! I LIKE TO EAT IT!! HA HA HA
November 1st, 2009 at 6:45 pm
in the bombing it was probably nuked so it has so weird radiation! lol =P
January 15th, 2010 at 9:38 am
mmmmmmm i dont know it can be photoshop but it really looks real!! CONGRAGULATIONS for the one that did the picture (=
If is real do more of that and sell them… that would help the economie and another thing dont forget Mexico!!!