“We felt like something was taken away from us,
and now we’ve got it back.”
Betty Ann Matthies, Mayor of Seguin, Texas
You know what they say: everything’s bigger in Texas. And the folks in Seguin, Texas (population 26,842) aim to keep it that way—especially when it comes to their nuts.
Seguin, known since the 1960s as home to the world largest pecan, lost that title in 2009 to little Brunswick, Missouri (population 836), which cracked the top spot with a pecan 7 feet around and 12 feet long. This did not sit well with the folks in Seguin. They’ve been hard at work building a bigger nut, and during their 4th of July parade this week unveiled the newest world’s largest pecan: 8 feet around and 16 feet long—showing folks in the Show Me state what big is. Still, the pecan in Brunswick wins the weight division: a whopping 12,000 pounds versus 2,300 pounds in Seguin. Something tells me we haven’t seen the last of the nut wars yet.
And that’s today’s news . . . in a nutshell.
Read the Articles:
Texas ® Seguin reclaims title as home of the world’s largest pecanMissouri ® The world’s largest pecan (Has a picture of Brunswick’s world’s largest nut; it’s a big ‘un!)
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