Chip shop discovers 'UK's biggest ever potato' - and it even looks like a hippo

06 October 2023 , 17:03

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Customers can guess how heavy the potato is (Image: Natalia Sidorova / SWNS)

A chip shop has discovered what it believes to be one of the UK's biggest spuds, that unusually looks like a hippopotamus.

Archie's Fish and Chip Shop took to social media in early September to show off the whopper of a potato, where owners Natalia Sidorova and Alexander Povalyaev revealed the huge potato was delivered in a bag from a supplier.

Employee Roni Gill, 23, said: "We went to cut our chips to fry and this is one of the potatoes that came out of our bags."

The colossal potato weighed just over two kilograms and measured 10 by 6 inches.

The chip shop, in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, has been hosting a guessing game for customers and intends to keep the spud until Saturday.

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The iconic potato which could turn into two medium portions (Natalia Sidorova / SWNS)

Natalia said: "We believe that is the one of the big potatoes in the UK. We have decided to keep it till Saturday (October 7) and let our customers guess how heavy it is. Then we will clean it and will make chips and also will ask our customers to guess how many portions we will get from it."

Originally from Russia, the couple said it was the biggest potato they had ever come across in nearly 10 years of working in the business. They still don't know how many portions the potato will yield, but Alexander speculated it could be "two medium portions".

The current he world record for the biggest potato is held by Nottinghamshire vegetable grower, Peter Glazebrook, who grew a spud weighing 4.98 kg.

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