To wonder why.. (brace yourself)

[BackAgainSlimLady]

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?

Has led me to find out that marrow is mearg In Old English. So feel free to call them smael mearg.

I'm not sure 16% is something to write home about..

I'm just going to toss a muffin into the thread.

'Flapjack' for something that flipflaps over in a pan does sound more logical than using it for 'oaty biscuit', to be fair.

But they don't lose moisture and the skin doesn't go hard in the same way. Cucumbers are a bit of an anomaly on that front.

Another poster said it wasn't, I would consider it a squash but wasn't sure if there was some special test that I was unaware of.

Spaghetti squash is my favo(u)rite but sadly never seen it in the UK.

Is it a muffin or a cupcake though?

In Italian it's zucchina (sing) / zucchine (pl). Feminine noun. But I think the masculine form is also used (zucchino (sing) / zucchini (pl).

Masculine nouns usually end in o, with i as the plural. So 1 panino, 2 panini.

In the feminine it's usually a/e - so 1 pizza, 2 pizze.

An exception would be words that end in e in the singular, which end in i (1 canzone, 2 calzoni).

Oh dear God, not this again. Why is it when people adamantly believe they're right (but are, in fact, SO wrong) they don't just look it up to check first. Just because you've always incorrectly believed something, doesn't make it right. The correct term is "just deserts" (but pronounced as "desserts", which may be what causes the confusion for some people). The word "desert" in this phrase comes from the Old French word dēservīre, which means "to serve according to merit". It has nothing to do with puddings! 😂

Not true. I worked for a supermarket and we looked at getting rid of it, but it loses moisture and the skin goes hard, so there were complaints. It is to do with the speed at which it dehydtares and changes the quality of the product. It is annoying, but is virtually the only bit of fruit and veg where we couldn't get rid of the wrap.

But Mumsnet is a UK-based internet forum and the majority of users are British - of course the terminology will often be British.

The PP you were replying to is being very disingenuous I think. Courgette is not a ‘strange word to use’ on a British internet forum, and I find it hard to believe he/she has really never heard the term before.

courgette brownies?

I think we all need some rest bite from this topic

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/courgette-brownies

I've got a chester draws for sale if anyone is interested.

Am 🧐 and also 😂 at the fact @WillIEverBeOk has felt the need to (wrongly) correct people on this forum twice in one thread!

Can we please keep to the pacifics of the original post?

Hmmm, good question. Given that French is the second official language in Canada, I tend to think they'd use the French-influenced British words, but who knows? Any Canadians out there to enlighten us?

Manky Bawbags in Scotland.

It is - it’s English.

you are referring to American.

Zucchini muffins?

NZers use aubergine/eggplant and courgette/zucchini interchangeably. (Although aubergine is, IME, more common than eggplant.)

Or at least they do where I'm from.

Just read that back again and have another think.

We’re on a British website and British people call them courgettes 🙄 so it’s not in the slightest bit strange. If you want people to refer to them as zucchini then go to a site based in a country where they call them zucchinis.

So weirdos can stick them up their arse and send photos to women and still be able to eat them afterwards 🤷🏻‍♀️
Definitely different from a dick pic, but I didn't want or ask for it 🤮