While the Blackfoot Idaho potato is a much-cared-for monument, the World’s Largest Potato in Robertson NSW Australia is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s hard to make a monument to a potato exciting, but there were big plans for the Big Potato. Rising costs prevented the planned development of a Potato Information Center complex at the site of the tubular tuber, and there is no gift shop.

Nevertheless, the Australian World’s Largest Potato is an impressive 32 feet long, 13 feet wide, ferro-concrete potato built in 1977 by Jim Mauger. Inside, the surface is sprayed to resemble mashed potatoes, giving a little indication of the unrealized Info Center plans. It sits in the middle of the town of Robertson, on the main street.

There’s also a Canadian World's Largest Potato in Maugerville, New Brunswick. This one sports a top hat and a Mr. Magoo-like squint, outside of Harvey’s Family Farm, and is therefore called Harvey’s Giant Potato Man. Built in 1969 of ferro-concrete, it’s 19 feet tall, and one of a series of World’s Largest Things built by designer Winston Atwood Bronnum.

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