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Mercury Press A terrified woman has told how she returned home after three months away to find mutant potatoes had invaded her kitchen. Donna Porée, 22, discovered the alien-like spuds with their ...
Among the belongings she left behind as she hurriedly relocated was a simple bag of potatoes she had picked up from the local shop with the intention of cooking them for dinner. She didn't give ...
A TERRIFIED woman has told how she returned home after three months away to find mutant potatoes had invaded her kitchen. Donna Porée, 22, discovered the alien-like spuds with their metre-long ...
“It’s not a one-of-a-kind thing — it’s not a weird mutant potato,” he told TODAY Food. In Porée's case, however, it turns out that both the time and the season created the ideal ...
The story follows a mutant potato that comes to accept who he is despite his unconventional appearance. “A lot of people have been embracing the weirdness aspect of it and the self-image aspect ...
The hulking potato, which Donna Craig-Brown says is mutant-like, was found beneath the soil at their Hamilton farm. Adding to the mystery is that the couple didn’t plant potatoes there.
A potato. "We couldn't believe it," Donna said. "It was just huge." And not exactly pretty. Donna describes its appearance as more of an ugly, mutant look. But it's quite possibly the largest ...
But Dr Bryan's team plan to use a 'diploid' species of potato, with two copies of genes, called Solanum verrucosum for their work. They plan to create plants with two copies of various mutant genes, ...
The current record has been held since 2011 by a potato from Shepton Mallett, Somerset - which weighed a mere 4.98kg (10lb 14oz). Since deciding to call their mutant-looking vegetable Doug ...