A campaign to build a Big Peanut in Queensland has humbly accepted its loss to a Big Melon in a competition to find Australia’s next Big Thing.
The Queensland town of Kingaroy offered its congratulations to the nearby town of Chinchilla – known as the “melon capital of Australia” – after it became the proud owner of the four-tonne, nine metre-long watermelon on Wednesday.
Australia’s Big Things – oversized renderings of sheep, cows, fruit, vegetables and other objects – are a staple of regional tourism, and this year four towns vied to win a competition to build a new Big Thing, organised by booking company Wotif.
Kristy Board from the group Kingaroy Needs a Big Peanut, told Guardian Australia they were disappointed to lose, but were glad the Big Melon had won.
“If we were to come second to anyone, we were hoping it would be the Big Watermelon,” she said. “They are our neighbours, they are in Queensland. They are our rural sisters basically.”
And despite the narrow loss, she said Kingaroy’s “peanut collective” would press ahead and build the giant nut anyway.
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