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A sliver from what could be the world’s biggest potato has been sent to Scotland for DNA testing to see if he’s actually a spud.
Dug the Potato, weighing 7.9kg, was hauled out from under the soil on his small farm near Hamilton when his caregivers, Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, were cleaning up in their vegetable garden in late August.
They read the 128-page application guide on the Guinness World Records website, completed the online application form, supplied pictures and a video of the potato on the certified scale at their local PGG Wrightson and sought verification by an agronomist and Wilcox – a vegetable grower in New Zealand – to confirm what Dug is.
A potato.
Yet he Guinness World Records, based in the United Kingdom, needed more proof. They asked if they could send an expert around in person and contacted Colin’s verifiers personally to cross-reference, Colin said.
They never came.
“Do they think I genetically modified it?” Colin wonders.
“It makes me feel s..., it's been a roller-coaster of emotion.
Colin doesn’t know how long it will be until he hears if Dug is an official record holder, if Guinness World Records have accepted that he’s actually a potato, or if they’ve accepted his original weight.
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