Shopper bought a punnet of strawberries from Morrisons & found one as big as an APPLE

STRAWB blimey! Shopper Chris Taylor bought a punnet of the fruits — and found one as big as an apple.

He had not realised one of the strawberries in the pack was a whopping 2.5ins high and 6ins round.

The 49-year-old hospital doctor said: “It was incredible. And absolutely delicious.”

Chris, of Middlesbrough, bought the 300g packet of Kent-grown strawberries for £2.49 from a Morrisons store at Teesside Park.

He added: “I love strawberries and buy them all the time ­during June.

“By this time of year they often aren’t as sweet, but this packet smelt nice so I decided to try them.”

Dad-of-three Chris continued: “When I opened them up I saw that one was as big as an apple.

“Big ones sometimes aren’t as tasty but this smelled very good — and it was really tasty as well.

“Perhaps I should have tried to sell it on eBay but I wanted to have it myself.”

But his strawb was some way off getting in to Guinness World Records.

The biggest ever recorded was a 10oz giant grown in Israel in 2021, measuring 7ins high and 13ins in circumference.