Giant Idaho potato breaking the spud limit in Colorado

April 12, 2012

By Electa Draper

Denver Post

Judging by the number of doubletakes and swerving cars — cellphone cameras held aloft outside windows — the arrival in Denver of a 28-foot-long, 12,130-pound “specially cultivated” potato chained to a sweetheart-red flatbed did not go unnoticed.

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