worlds largest potato dug up

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 the United Kingdom 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.

That doesn't look quite safe to eat...

it has a tumor

wtf are you talking about that thing is a tumor

lol "its not a tumah"

thats fricken sick.

I wonder what type of potato that is... It looks perfectly safe to eat, it hasn't been washed or peeled yet, though the shovel marks do take something away from it.

Also, this could just be the first in a series of giant spuds that will eventually take over the planet. They will then promptly hand it over to the carrot people in hopes of garnering their favor.

Or maybe the soil itself is just turning radioactive down there.

Entirely possible...good point.

Way to go Mia! you scared everyone away!

you people and your dancing locks.

also, I remembered what this potato reminds me of

I love my dancing locks.
I hate those screeching turnips though. I hate you for reminding me of them too!