A chip shop has discovered what they believe to be one of the UK's biggest spuds - that looks like a hippopotamus.<br /><br />Archie's Fish and Chip Shop took to social media to show off the whopper of a potato - they say resembles a seal or a hippo.<br /><br />Owners Natalia Sidorova, 50, and Alexander Povalyaev, 42, revealed the huge potato was delivered in bag from a supplier. <br /><br />Employee Roni Gill, 23, said: "We went to cut our chips to fry and this is one of the potatoes that came out of our bags."<br /><br />The potato weighs just over two kilograms and measures 10x6 inches.<br /><br />The chippy, in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, has been hosting a guessing game for customers and intend to keep the spud until Saturday. <br /><br />Natalia said: "We believe that is the one of the big potatoes in the UK.<br /><br />"We have decided to keep it till Saturday (October 7) and let our customers guess how heavy it is.<br /><br />"Then we will clean it and will make chips and also will ask our customers to guess how many portions we will get from it."<br /><br />The couple, who are originally from Russia, said it was the biggest potato they have ever come across in nearly ten years of working in the chippy.<br /><br />They still don't know how many portions the potato will yield - but Alexander speculated it could be "two medium portions".<br /><br />The world record for the biggest potato is held by Nottinghamshire vegetable grower, Peter Glazebrook for a spud weighing 4.98 kg.<br /><br />The footage was captured on September 4.
