Guinness World Records Rules This Spud is No Potato!

It looks Like a potato, even tastes like one, but it's not! According to Guinness World Records.

When is a potato not a potato?  When it’s a tuber of a gourd, according to Guinness World Records.  A New Zealand couple believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden but had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness wrote to say scientific testing had found it wasn’t, in fact, a potato after all.  It was a “tuber of a type of gourd”.  The couple named the tuber spud Doug and it weighed 17. 4 pounds.  They said it looked and tasted like a potato.  It looks like the biggest couch potato to us!