Gargantuan pumpkin could flavor 74,794 pumpkin spice lattes

Share For the second consecutive year and fourth time overall, Travis Gienger won the 51st Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. This year’s grand prize winner named Rudy clocked in at 2,471 pounds. If you can’t quite picture how heavy that is, it’s two times as heavy as a grizzly bear, half as heavy as a Rhinoceros, two-thirds as heavy as a car, and enough to flavor 74,794 pumpkin spice lattes. Gienger will receive prize money of nine dollars per pound, another, a pumpkin grower champion ring, champions jacket, and a…

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