Farmers in Australia were left “stoked” when they noticed that among the blueberries they picked, there was one as big as a golf ball and weighing significantly more than average.
The giant blueberry, which is 39.31mm wide and weighs 20.4 grams - much more than the average of between 1 gram and 3.5 grams - was picked at a farm in Corindi, New South Wales, in November last year. On Tuesday, Guinness World Records publicly declared it the biggest blueberry in the world - a title previously held by a 16.2 grams berry with a diameter of 36.33mm grown in Western Australia.
I’m all my years of working with produce, I can say with certainty that the bigger the blueberry, the shittier, grittier, and more mashed potato-like the inside… But I’ll be damned if stoked isn’t the exact feeling I get every time I come across a monster.
Generally speaking, I’m with you, but there is some new variety that’s come out recently that are both giant, and delicious. They’re more expensive than the small ones so I was doubly skeptical but I was blown away by the flavor.
I require knowledge of this blueberry. Can the plant be bought? Can i grow my own giant blueberries?!
This isn’t the original brand that I had, but these are close and more or less comparable, which was incredibly shocking for me given I got them at a Walmart https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/blueberries-xl/6000204263062
In my experience as a blueberry eater, the bigger the berry, the weaker the juice. Blueberries already barely have any flavor without turning it into a jam or sauce or pie filling, and the bigger they are the less they taste like anything. One the size of a golf ball must taste like pure air, but with terrible texture.