"In the interests of metric, that is more than a metre?"
September 2, 2015 5:14 PM Subscribe
Daniel Tomlin, a gardener from Kelowna, British Columbia, claims he has grown the world's longest cucumber. According to Guinness World Records, the cucumber that currently holds the world record for longest ever grown measured "107 cm (42.1 in) and was grown by Ian Neale of Wales, UK. It was presented at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK, on 26 September 2011." Tomlin's cucumber measures just over one metre (44.5 inches).
The hosts of CBC's As It Happens noted in a tweet that one listener "questions the circumference" of Tomlin's cucumber, and provided them with calculations to back up that skepticism.
Tomlin expects to hear back from Guinness World Records in a few weeks.
Direct link to the CBC interview with Tomlin available here.
Other cucumber-related records:
Heaviest cucumber
Largest cucumber plant
Most cucumbers chopped blindfolded on the hand in one minute
Most cucumbers sliced from a person's mouth with a sword in one minute
Most cucumbers harvested from one plant in one year
Largest gazpacho
The hosts of CBC's As It Happens noted in a tweet that one listener "questions the circumference" of Tomlin's cucumber, and provided them with calculations to back up that skepticism.
Tomlin expects to hear back from Guinness World Records in a few weeks.
Direct link to the CBC interview with Tomlin available here.
Other cucumber-related records:
Heaviest cucumber
Largest cucumber plant
Most cucumbers chopped blindfolded on the hand in one minute
Most cucumbers sliced from a person's mouth with a sword in one minute
Most cucumbers harvested from one plant in one year
Largest gazpacho
Yeah, that's the glorious thing about the metric system. One can read a length like 107cm and instantly know that it's a bit longer than a meter.
posted by telstar at 5:32 PM on September 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by telstar at 5:32 PM on September 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
I love that he isn't just going to make the largest pickle, he has constructed a special fermentation chamber out of flowerpots in order to lactoferment the worlds largest pickle.
posted by ssg at 5:40 PM on September 2, 2015
posted by ssg at 5:40 PM on September 2, 2015
Points for creativity. Most guys just buy a Porsche.
posted by tallthinone at 5:55 PM on September 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by tallthinone at 5:55 PM on September 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
Well this is straight out of a Jasper Fforde novel.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:02 PM on September 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Literaryhero at 8:02 PM on September 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Assuming super-dank 5mm slices and a modest 4-slice-per-burger rule to conserve pickle supplies, THAT'S ABOUT 50 BURGERS WORTH OF PICKLE. If you stacked them on top of each other and put them on a space shuttle, they would feed the crew from here TO THE MOON AND BACK!
posted by jake at 8:42 PM on September 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by jake at 8:42 PM on September 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
Ah yes, Canada in the 21st century: when we're not growing prize winning type assholes we're growing prize winning type produce.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 9:24 PM on September 2, 2015
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 9:24 PM on September 2, 2015
Tell me this isn't the setup to some sort of misbegotten porn parody of Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Somewhere Bunnicula is sharpening his fangs.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:14 AM on September 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Somewhere Bunnicula is sharpening his fangs.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:14 AM on September 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
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