"In the interests of metric, that is more than a metre?"

September 2, 2015 5:14 PM

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

posted by mandolin conspiracy (10 comments total)

Tell me this isn't the setup to some sort of misbegotten porn parody of Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
posted by Captain l'escalier at 5:30 PM on September 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

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]

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

CBC stands for "Cucumber, Big Cucumber," right?
posted by neroli at 5:51 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]

Well this is straight out of a Jasper Fforde novel.
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]

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

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]

My cucumber - it's bigger.
posted by jetsetsc at 9:03 AM on September 3, 2015