World's Biggest Fruit and Vegetables

For centuries people the world over have obsessed about growing the biggest and best of every fruit and vegetable variety possible. In these modern times, world records are held in higher regard than ever before with seeds from record specimens fetching thousands of dollars on Ebay.

268.8-pound watermelon grown by Lloyd Bright

Hope, Arkansas, is not only the town where Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee got their start but also home of the world’s largest watermelons. The town’s first world-record melon was grown in 1935, and it held the prize for decades. After a brief sojourn in Tennessee, the record once again returned to Hope when Lloyd Bright grew a 268.8-pound behemoth in 2005.

Below are a few giant fruit and vegetable specimens that have broken records in recent times. These images and information sourced from this article by Raina Kelley on Newsweek.

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