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Giant cabbage bursts before weigh-in

PALMER, Alaska (UPI) -- An Alaskan farmer said his potentially record-setting giant cabbage exploded just four days before the official weigh-in at the Alaska State Fair.

Scott Robb said he found the 6-foot-wide cabbage after its destruction Monday -- most likely from a parasite infection -- and was instantly disqualified from the giant cabbage weigh-in, the Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday.

Robb and his wife Mardie said they weighed the remains of the mammoth cabbage and discovered it could have been only the second cabbage in the contest's 60 years to top 100 pounds.

"You should have seen poor Scott's face," Mardie Robb said. "We knew it was big, but to hit over the 100-pound mark and for it to be literally coleslaw was not fun."

Robb said he has two other cabbages entered in the contest, but he does not expect either of them to reach to 100-pound mark.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 08/27/2008

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