I long for a simpler time. A happier time, a time when

[HoneyDragon]

They didn't feel the need to shrink wrap cucumbers

Remember those hazy, happy days gone by, where cucumbers frolicked freely in the vegetable aisle and we didn't die from toxic cucumber contamination? I do. I miss them

AIBU?

Am I ?

Somehow, my parents small village still has its butcher and its greengrocer. Not sure how, but it would be that it's a poncey area.

I always slice the cucumber packaging off, because rolling it down seems just too filthy.

Years ago my Mum sent my Dad to the farm shop to get half a cucumber.
He was gone for ages.
Eventually came back waving a courgette and said,
'They didn't have any halves so I got a small whole one '

We still use the phrase today

I'm on my phone so can't do links, but you all need to listen to Rhod Gilbert about jacket potatoes! it is on you tube. I first heard it when flicking between radio stations whilst driving through the night. I had to pull over and compose myself but driving on! I felt I had found my soul mate on the radio.

*before driving on, not but driving on.

OP, I hear ya !

I hate all types of unnecessary packaging but especially those hard plastic blister packs that even garden shears don't get through.

Tesco even used to put their Nicotine replacement lozenges in them. By the time I had sawn my way in, I had smoked 20 ciggies with the stress.

All because they wanted to be able to put a security tag on something that cost around £8. Pah!

Fruit & vegetables should be naked as the day they were born though.

Free the veggies - that's what I say.

I expect the toothpaste is to stop terrorists injecting poison into them.

That made me LOL. Literally.

Yes I know, it's probably true, but it just kind of tickled my fancy the matter of fact way it was put.

The terrorists Los need to be kept away from tomato purée too.

Also not Los(!?)

Hahahahahaha! This thread has made me laugh out loud. not typing the abbreviation...

This is all hilarious, despite the fact that I have more than likely moaned about every last one of them!

My one to add - Ringpulls on tins. That break off meaning that my DD stands there wailing pitifully that she can't open the sweet corn. At which point I hand her the tin opener, and tell her to do it the old fashioned way...

I've just started growing my own cucumbers. They only last about three days in the fridge before they go soft. Same with courgettes. I dunno how they get them to the shops fresh. Probably radiation or something nasty.

But I agree re over packaging.

You should all try grow your own. It's very satisfying. Particularly salad which is dead easy and is lovely to pick fresh every day.

Disclaimer: I live in NZ where stuff grow easily.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels incredibly rude when rolling down cucumber packaging!

The sneaky thing about the plastic cucumber condom is that it allows you to leave the cucumber languishing in the salad drawer for weeks, assuming that it must still be fresh because it's still a nice firm cucumber shape. And then you go to get it out and it flops in your hand..... urgh.

Don't start me on the tomato caste system that's sprung up over the years. I remember when tomatoes were just tomatoes. Now they're vine-grown, flavour-fresh, organically vine-grown... Poor normal tomatoes.

I cant get into my cucumber. stupid shrink wrapped bastard.

I have tears from listening to that Rhod Gilbert potato thing... actual tears

The Elizabethans were convinced that cucumbers were poisonous. Perhaps Tesco et al are just trying to protect us?

We still have a milkman. And a fishman calls once a week with his van. spoilt and lives in t'country

RealAleandOpenFires Your post reads like a John Betjeman poem. I'm right with you btw. I find 'nowadays' so hurried. I can't keep up and have a nagging feeling I shoud be doing it all (whatever 'it all' is) faster and more efficiently.

Cucumbers are merely a symptom of a far greater problem

Then: Milk in bottles with the lovely pop-off silver tops that you sometimes licked the cream off of.

Now: 4 pints of cow juice in a container that has probably produced enough landfill to create a new island, that cuts your hand when you open it, breaks your teeth when you try and get the foil off the top and a handle designed for maximum spillage over the breakfast table.

we have a milkman with proper bottles n all
I like to dip my finger into the cream.

We have milk in milk bottles from the milkman but it is homogenised so no creamy top for us. (I miss my FIL's farm where we used to get really creamy milk straight from the cows.)

those with proper milkmen! We get stuck with stupid plastic bottles from Sainsbury's. No cream on my cornflakes

Cucumbers are bad, but what about broccoli? It too used to frolick freely in the aisles, unencumbered by shink-wrap and the weighty oppression of a society gone mad. Now it sits sadly, contained and homogenised in its prison of plastic.

Yy to all the above but especially the tomatoes.

I fricking love all the fawning that's done over 'vine' tomatoes. What do people imagine the other tomatoes grew on exactly?

The single most annoying thing about the stupid sodding foil seal under the lid of milk bottles though is the bastards who just peel it to one side instead of taking it off and putting it in the bin. Gives me the rage

Worse than terrorists injecting stuff into toothpaste is when i find someone swigging milk from the carton at work - omg that is an unimaginably disgusting crime.

Oh yes... I love cucumbers! I have a grand total of four in the fridge now. I really should start eating them instead of just admiring them.

Even coconut are film-wrapped... I mean, what on earth can befall those things? You need a hammer to get into them. [shocked]

Zero tolerance on milk swiggers here.