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BackAgainSlimLady · 2025-02-24T12:29:35+00:00

Single cucumbers from the supermarket come wrapped in plastic.. but single courgettes don’t? if you ask me.. courgettes have a slightly more fragile skin that cucumber.. so why the lack of protection?

venus7 · 24/02/2025 18:53

WillIEverBeOk · 24/02/2025 12:55

YANBU. But I had to google 'courgettes'. Very strange word to use. Not sure why you can't say zucchini which is what it is.

Zucchini in Italy, courgette here.

venus7 · 24/02/2025 18:52

Because cucumbers are sold individually, so need a barcode, and courgettes are sold by weight, usually several at a time........they're sometimes prepacked in plastic bags.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2025 18:49

You must be familiar with the, "Avocado" bathroom suite trend?

Yes...the odd thing was, very few people in the uk ate either avocados or aubergines at that time.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 24/02/2025 18:49

Crunchymum · 24/02/2025 13:12

Have a Google. It really is "just deserts".

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Mind blown😲😲😲😲😲😲

BitOutOfPractice · 24/02/2025 18:49

Bigearringsbigsmile · 24/02/2025 13:11

No it's not!!

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Oh god. Please! 😱

It is spelled deserts. Provinces like desserts. There’s a whole bloody thread about it!

it’s a very good question op. Though I tend not to buy courgettes much as they are vile.

RedToothBrush · 24/02/2025 18:45

ZookeeperSE · 24/02/2025 18:21

The French don't like their language being butched

Butched? Oh no, you invoked Muphry's Law!

(awaits someone coming for me to say it's Murphy's Law......)

Yep. 😂

I struggle with what I type. I can spell. I just can't see where I've made mistakes. I'm totally blind to them.

I do it a lot.

Topsyturvy78 · 24/02/2025 18:45

WillIEverBeOk · 24/02/2025 12:55

YANBU. But I had to google 'courgettes'. Very strange word to use. Not sure why you can't say zucchini which is what it is.

That's what Americans named it. Most other countries call them courgettes.🤣🤣🤣I also find it weird aubergines are called egg plant in the US. It's a vegetable.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 24/02/2025 18:43

Crunchymum · 24/02/2025 13:12

Have a Google. It really is "just deserts".

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Maybe in Trip Advisor complaints about holidays towards the top end of Africa.

Rest of the time, it's somebody receiving their Just (as in fair, justice) Desserts (ending, final dish, a serving of consequences).

Redheadedstepchild · 24/02/2025 18:42

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2025 18:40

I've got another question... somewhere in the early 70s there was a year or two when a particular purplish colour was very trendy in the U.K., which was dubbed 'aubergine'.
So I'm wondering whether the same trend happened elsewhere and if so what this (frankly rather ugly) hue was called?

You must be familiar with the, "Avocado" bathroom suite trend?

BooomShakeTheRoom · 24/02/2025 18:41

ChicaWowWow · 24/02/2025 18:37

Not always, you can eat them raw, sliced in ribbons or julienned. Delicious (specially the yellow ones!)

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I know, but the vast majority of courgettes are eaten cooked.

JayJayEl · 24/02/2025 18:40

Crunchymum · 24/02/2025 13:01

Courgette

(and it's "just deserts" not desserts - sorry!!)

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What the?!
I just had to Google this. Consider my mind blown!

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2025 18:40

I've got another question... somewhere in the early 70s there was a year or two when a particular purplish colour was very trendy in the U.K., which was dubbed 'aubergine'.
So I'm wondering whether the same trend happened elsewhere and if so what this (frankly rather ugly) hue was called?

ChicaWowWow · 24/02/2025 18:38

Numsmetposter · 24/02/2025 18:35

Because you need the plastic wrap to contain the black slush after it rolls the to the back of the fridge and gets forgotten about.

Do not keep in the fridge, even when already cut. It doesn't go slimey this way and keeps longer.

ChicaWowWow · 24/02/2025 18:37

BooomShakeTheRoom · 24/02/2025 18:22

Isn’t it because people cook courgette? So it doesn’t matter if it’s a bit grimy from boxes, hands and tills. Whereas we eat cucumber after a quick rinse so it’s safer to be wrapped?

Not always, you can eat them raw, sliced in ribbons or julienned. Delicious (specially the yellow ones!)

Numsmetposter · 24/02/2025 18:35

Because you need the plastic wrap to contain the black slush after it rolls the to the back of the fridge and gets forgotten about.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2025 18:35

@decorativecushions - she's in Australia, probably by now with her head under a pillow moaning 'make it stop, make it stop'.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2025 18:33

Dollydaydream100 · 24/02/2025 18:32

Or should I say its Murphy's law (it's POSSESSIVE dontcha know)

Yes, that's definitely obeying Muphry's law.

BrainWontWorkAnymore · 24/02/2025 18:32

🫑 pepper
🌶️ chili
🥒 cucumber
🍆 aubergine
🥔 potato
🍠 sweet potato
🧅 onion
🧇 waffle
🥞 scotch pan cake
🍟 chips
🥟 pasty
🫓 pancake (not sure)
🥪 sandwich or sarnie
🧁 fairy cake
🍩 doughnut
🍪 biscuit

Dollydaydream100 · 24/02/2025 18:32

Or should I say its Murphy's law (it's POSSESSIVE dontcha know)

Dollydaydream100 · 24/02/2025 18:30

ZookeeperSE · 24/02/2025 18:21

The French don't like their language being butched

Butched? Oh no, you invoked Muphry's Law!

(awaits someone coming for me to say it's Murphy's Law......)

It's "Murphy's Law"!!! 😉

decorativecushions · 24/02/2025 18:29

WillIEverBeOk · 24/02/2025 12:55

YANBU. But I had to google 'courgettes'. Very strange word to use. Not sure why you can't say zucchini which is what it is.

It's widely called a courgette in the UK and that's what supermarkets label it as?

Where are you?

Redheadedstepchild · 24/02/2025 18:26

Presumably the drink squash is called that because it or involves squashing whatever the flavouring ingredient is as part of the process.

Then there is the game, "Squash." Does anybody play this anymore? Here's the wikipedia for the game of Squash. It's all about squashed balls, apparently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(sport)#:~:text=Squash%20has%20its%20origins%20in,game%20spread%20to%20other%20schools.

phoenixrosehere · 24/02/2025 18:24

From a Google search when eggplants were introduced to America by early settlers, the variety was white so they actually looked like an eggplant while aubergine is a French word that was adopted by Brits in the 18th century.

Zucchini is used in the States because it was a term brought over by Italian immigrants around the late18th/early 19th century while courgette is French and was another term adopted by the Brits in the second half of the 19th century.

Both courgette and zucchini mean “gourd” in English.

Burnserns · 24/02/2025 18:23

ThisKindOpalCrab · 24/02/2025 14:27

I don't want to argue with a Canadian but I feel a bit that quebecois wouldn't say courgettes.

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They might. My family are Acadien (from the maritimes) the French spoken where I'm from has several differences to the French spoken in Quebec.

LuluBlakey1 · 24/02/2025 18:23

BrainWontWorkAnymore · 24/02/2025 18:18

Eh? North of Newcastle here and it’s orange squash. Next you’ll be saying you don’t know what monkeys blood is 🍦

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Of course I know what monkey's blood is. I'm not uncultured 😁