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World's heaviest blueberry grown in Australia
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Posted on 03/15/2024 1:24:36 PM PDT by Red Badger

Australia-based Costa Berries broke a Guinness World Record by growing a blueberry that weighed .72 ounce. (Photo courtesy of Costa Berries)

March 14 (UPI) -- An Australian berry company broke a Guinness World Record by growing a Ping-Pong-sized berry that weighs .72 ounce.

A Guinness adjudicator examined the blueberry grown by Costa Berries in Corindi, New South Wales, and confirmed it was the world's heaviest blueberry.

Brad Hocking, head of the team that grew the berry, said it was picked in November last year and kept frozen while the company communicated with Guinness World Records.

The blueberry is the new Eterna variety developed by Costa Berries.

Hocking said his team hasn't decided what to do with the record-breaking berry.

"We all look at it occasionally and smile," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "I don't think a smoothie would be the right fate for it."


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: blueberry
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1 posted on 03/15/2024 1:24:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

It’s probably deadly


2 posted on 03/15/2024 1:25:57 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Red Badger

Well, you’d better find the ‘right fate’ for it soon...


3 posted on 03/15/2024 1:26:13 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Big Blueberry Ping!.................


4 posted on 03/15/2024 1:26:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: NWFree

LOL! Smirk!


5 posted on 03/15/2024 1:26:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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To: Jamestown1630

Waffle..................


6 posted on 03/15/2024 1:26:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Excellent choice.


7 posted on 03/15/2024 1:27:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Muffin or pancakes.


8 posted on 03/15/2024 1:29:29 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: NWFree

Likely to be a hybrid or GMO.


9 posted on 03/15/2024 1:31:22 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: George from New England

I don’t know; sometimes things can naturally grow big. But my husband grew up growing veggies with his dad and says that ‘giant’ things generally don’t taste as good...


10 posted on 03/15/2024 1:34:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger
So evidently it’s now possible to grow huge blueberries.
This news will make some people very happy.


11 posted on 03/15/2024 1:36:49 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Red Badger

That’ll do for a whole bowl of Cap’n Crunch.


12 posted on 03/15/2024 1:43:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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But my husband grew up growing veggies with his dad and says that ‘giant’ things generally don’t taste as good..

Just like the big Red Delicious Washington Apples. They were big and red but tasted like a baked potato. They were over engineered and modified to the point they lost all their flavor. Entire orchards had to be cleared the only thing they were good for was sider and applesauce.

13 posted on 03/15/2024 1:43:25 PM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Red Badger

Check it for steroids and whatever kept Sleepy Joe awake during his Scream if the Union speech.


14 posted on 03/15/2024 1:55:43 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Red Badger

The Blueberry that Ate Australia


15 posted on 03/15/2024 1:57:15 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: Red Badger

Probably has a stinger and fangs hidden away there.


16 posted on 03/15/2024 1:58:06 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Red Badger

This was top news at noon in my neck of the woods.

Nothing about the murders, gang wars, drug wars, carjackings, or anything else that would warn one of what is current.

A dam blueberry.


17 posted on 03/15/2024 1:59:39 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Red Badger

It’s the Great Blueberry, Charlie Brown


18 posted on 03/15/2024 2:05:02 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

19 posted on 03/15/2024 2:06:11 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: Red Badger
We would call it a.3
Mile island Berry
20 posted on 03/15/2024 2:20:25 PM PDT by shadeaud (God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!)
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