I got the sausages in the oven and then went to find the bag of baking potatoes that I bought in our local "Lidl" store last week. Casually, I ripped through the polythene and to my surprise discovered this very big potato inside (see above). It is possibly the biggest regular potato I have ever handled. I decided to weigh it and it came in at just over two pounds and just under one kilogram. Bloody massive it was.
I only needed that one potato for our chips and in fact I didn't use it all. Imagine asking a guest or family member if they wanted a baked potato and then presenting them with that monster!
Out of curiosity I decide to find out if my potato's size was anywhere near record-breaking. Naturally, I expected it to pale into insignificance compared with the really big boys. Indeed, there have been many much bigger potatoes. The current record holder was grown in the village of Halam, Nottinghamshire by a gentleman called Peter Glazebrook back in 2011.
His whopper weighed in at 4.99 kilograms - or just under eleven pounds in old money. In other words, it was five times bigger than ours. But to me it seems something of an aberration - quite freakish with its various nobbly bits. At least our spud was a normal-looking complete tuber.
Your spud looks good!
ReplyDeleteThe spud was the best thing we ever got from The Americas. Next best - Bob Dylan and Burger King.
DeleteWell I would have liked to see the finished meal. Finished, that is, before it was eaten.
ReplyDeleteNosy Parker!...or should I say - Nosy Taylor!
DeleteMy parents always paid us a few bucks for finding the biggest and most funny looking potatoes. Of course we had to dig them up ourselves. Looking back, it was money well spent on their part.
ReplyDeleteDid you find a potato that looked like you Ed? Two eyes, a mouth and same skin colour.
DeleteNo but we found some that looked like faces and others that had "genitalia"!
DeleteDid you happen to find any lady potatoes?
DeleteAt that age, we didn't know about such mysteries!
DeleteI like potatoes and good to hear that it will be baked.
ReplyDeletePay attention Sir Red! It was turned into chips.
DeleteI like the bigger spuds, it means you only have to peel one and have enough for the meal. That massive one looks a bit like a certain stage of foetal development.
ReplyDeleteGood point. Several little potatoes require more peeling.
DeleteThe canteen at my work place sometimes offer baked potatoes, and they are always HUGE. I suppose they are expected to provide big, filling portions for the starving office workers who have exerted themselves all morning, tapping away at keyboards and yapping away during meetings.
ReplyDeleteThe record-breaking spud looks like not one single spud to me but more like a combined growth of several smaller ones.
You should get some of those jacket potatoes down your neck Meike. Stop you from blowing away when walking in a gale.
DeleteI am most impressed by your massive spud. At one kilo, it must be heavy to carry around.
ReplyDeleteThrowing a spud like that would make a great new Olympic field sport.
DeleteIts a beauty. A whopper!
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about the potato Dave?
DeleteAre we still thinking of post titles as titles of forthcoming autobiographies?
ReplyDeleteNo. I have already thought of my title. It will be "A Yorkshire Memoir". Quite punchy I thought.
DeleteSimple meals are often the best in my opinion. And I learned something as I had on idea what constituted a Lincolnshire sausage, so I looked it up!
ReplyDeleteA Lincolnshire sausage is not something that a farmer has under his smock.
DeleteWhat had you been painting?
ReplyDeleteWell spotted Sherlock! I had been repainting a dead tree on which I hang bird food.
DeleteI would certainly have been proud to grow a potato that big.
ReplyDeleteI should have carved it instead of eating it.
DeleteThat's a bloody big potato.
ReplyDeleteI keep forgetting to tell you that I happened upon some old newspapers in a thrift shop here. The papers had been published in the 1930s and were from Leeds. Very strange.
Leeds is thirty five miles from this keyboard and yet you are 4163 miles away.
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