Holy guacamole! 5-pound avocado could set new record

Associated Press

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KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — A Hawaii woman is waiting to hear back from Guinness World Records to find out if the 5-pound avocado she snagged is the world’s largest.

Pamela Wang of the Big Island found the avocado Sunday while on a walk, West Hawaii Today reported.

“I see avocados every day and I pick up avocados every day, but this one. it was hard to miss,” Wang said. “It was as big as my head.”

Her next move was to go to the Pure Kona Green Market, where she met up with friends and showed the enormous avocado to community members.

Wang’s friends began making inquiries online, uncovering information that indicated that the avocado might just be the largest on record.

Wang submitted an application to Guinness and expects to hear back within two months. She had Ken Love, executive director of Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers, witness the avocado’s weighing. Guinness requires an expert to be present.

“I’ve seen (avocados) longer and I’ve seen them fatter, but not both,” said Love, who verified the fruit’s weight at 5.23 pounds. “I think people have other ones that they don’t weigh, but I think this one, it was way up there.”

Elizabeth Montoya, assistant public relations manager with Guinness World Records America, Inc., wrote that the company doesn’t have a category for the largest avocado. It does, however, have one for the heaviest.

Montoya said that in January 2009, Guinness verified an avocado submitted by Gabriel Ramirez Nahim of Caracas, Venezuela, which weighed in at 4 pounds, 13.2 ounces.

Wang said she found the avocado under a tree that hangs over a street. Anything overhanging or dropped outside of a private property line is free for anyone to claim.