Lebanon farmer grows super-sized spud

[kleenex]

Lebanon farmer grows super-sized spud - Yahoo! News

"This giant weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)," Khalil Semhat said at his farm in the Tyre area, 85 kilometres (50 miles) south of Beirut.

Good lord.....

 

[Katie H]

Yahoo! Warms the heart of this Irishman(woman). Gotta have my taters!!

 

[kitchenelf]

That is one ugly spud!

 

[miniman]

Can you imagine trying to peel it!!

Thanks for sharing Kleenex

 

[AllenOK]

I showed the pic of that spud to my sous chef last night. To both of us, it looked like the plant had produced several different taters, that all grew together and merged into one giant tuber. I wonder if there is any dirt in the convoluted folds of that thing?

 

[lifesaver]

that's the way it appeared to me too. several grew together.