People do strange things.
In my way of thinking, growing
turnips is strange. While I am a fan of vegetables,
I find turnips unpalatable. Additionally,
they are often too woody to whittle down to size for shooting from the potato
gun on my back deck.
In spite of this, there is a man
named Damien Allard in Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada, growing big
turnips. Really big. After growing a 15.4-pound turnip in 2016, he
set out to challenge the Guinness World Record, occupied since 2004 by a turnip
weighing 39 pounds.
Mr. Allard’s 2020 crop of
turnips produced three record-breaking turnips. The largest weighed-in at 63.9 pounds. The other two weighed 50.49 pounds and 53.79
pounds, respectively.
Personally, I would rather break
the Guinness World Record for running with knives.
— Mitchell Hegman
Source: UPI
Yeah, no thank you. On a slightly related note, I recently discovered that I do not like parsnips and am mad that I added a few to an Irish stew I made.
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