World Record Marrow

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks, World Records on September 8, 2008 at 11:01 am


I’m not familiar with a vegetable called a marrow (it seems to be some kind of squash), but this one is apparently the biggest ever at 113 pounds! There were lots of huge vegetables at a giant vegetable show in England.

The skin is craggy and dark, indicating it might not make the best offering at dinner, but it overtook the current world record by a whopping three kilos.

Grown by Ken Dade, from Norfolk, it had benefitted from the wet conditions during the spring and summer.

Show organiser Roy Davey is hopeful the show could yet produce another giant vegetable record. ‘We have hopes for a record cucumber,’ he said.

There’s a picture of the cucumber at The Daily Mail, but I can’t tell how long it is. Link -via Unique Daily


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6 comments to "World Record Marrow"

  1. LuuLuu
    September 8th, 2008 at 11:09 am

    A Marrow is what a zucchini (courgette here in England) will grow into if left

  2. yo
    September 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    "The skin is craggy and dark, indicating it might not make the best offering at dinner"

    that's what she said...

    (I'm so sorry)..

  3. TwoDragons
    September 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    What the heck do you DO with that thing? Eat it, or chain it up in the yard to scare away Jehovah's Witnesses?

    --TwoDragons

  4. Nicholas Dollak
    September 8th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Ah! I've been mildly curious about those things since I saw the one Gromit was carefully tending in "Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit."

    The "heavy loam" setting on the car's wiper controls still cracks me up.

  5. ted
    September 8th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    What's with all the pictures of women with long, tubular vegetables lately?

  6. Sweet Violet
    September 9th, 2008 at 5:11 am

    In South Africa we have "baby marrows" in the markets...they are actually just small zucchini.


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