Israeli strawberry clocks in as world's heaviest on record

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KADIMA-ZORAN, Israel — After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books. Weighing a whopping 10.19 ounces, more than half a pound, the titanic berry this week was declared the world’s largest by Guinness World Records.

The strawberry was picked on Chahi Ariel’s family farm near the city of Netanya in central Israel in February 2021. But only this week, Guinness confirmed it as the heaviest on record. “We waited for a year for the results,” Ariel said. “We kept it in the freezer for a year. It’s no longer as pretty as it was.”

The supersized strawberry is a local variety called Ilan that tends to grow to a hefty size. Ariel said the record-setting specimen has shrunk to about half the size it was a year before.

The previous record-holder for the heaviest strawberry was was a Japanese fruit grown in 2015 in Fukuoka that tipped the scales at 8.8 ounces.

https://triblive.com/news/world/israeli-strawberry-clocks-in-as-worlds-heaviest-on-record/

(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

[mitch96]

1. Sometimes at first glance I read things wrong.. " Israeli strawberry clock"

I thought what the hell is a strawberry clock and why is it so heavy?
Then I reread it....duh
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[Wicked Blue]

2. There was a band called Strawberry Alarm Clock in the late 60s

They had a hit "Incense, Peppermints" or something like that

[mitch96]

5. I remember it well being a child of the '60's...nt

[applegrove]

3. California was selling strawberries the size of small apples

at one point. Martha Stewart once had a recipe where you hollowed out a big strawberry and fill the void with chocolate mousse. LOL!

[Ocelot II]

4. But how does it taste?

Sometimes the big ones are pretty bland - the very best-tasting strawberries are often the wild ones, but you need a lot of them.