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The North Carolina State Fair Watermelon Weigh-Off
Reader's Digest US
|July - August 2019
CHRIS KENT, age 56, Sevierville, Tennessee
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Your 327.5-pound watermelon broke the fair’s record last year. How did you even get it to the fair in one piece?
I used four guys and a tarp made with special handles. We rolled the watermelon onto one side, put the tarp underneath it, and rolled it back onto the other side. Then everybody grabbed a corner, and we slid it into the back of my hatchback car.
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