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?

Thank you for explaining that one! 😂 Not familiar with the song and clearly having a thicko moment 😅

Zucchini is also Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, etc etc etc. Not just American.

The check(que) is not American!🥴

🤣🤣🤣. Coffee all over the screen now !!

But is it British ?

That's the English word for it. This isn't an American based website.

Will no-one spare a thought for the poor Italians? Being completely sidelined here, and it's THEIR word.

Not sure why you can't say courgette. Which is what it is.

That poster isn’t American.

What? I always wash mine, always have done.

Is there anyway to know that the website is based in the UK and not in Australia if the poster has found her way to it? She's not got on a plane and flown to Mumsnet

And not helped by the fact they believe a possessive apostrophe should be used in "its" when it should never be - one of the English language's famous "exception(s) to the rule".

Feel like we’re missing out on the cucumber action in the U.K. I’ve only seen a whole or a half cucumber as variations here!

Store cucumbers are bland every country I've ever been to.

I always take off the wrapper - plastic and veg preservation are not soulmates.

She's been here long enough to notice.

Spot on. Being a UK Southerner I'd never encountered anyone here saying "Mom" instead of "Mum" until I met my husband who comes from Stourbridge in the West Midlands and not only does he write "Mom", but he clearly pronounces it that way too. It's interesting because this only seems to be the case in the West Midlands (and even the local press use "Mom" too) - I've never heard it anywhere else in the UK (happy to be corrected).

I'm vaguely aware of the word zucchini but I'd not use it and if OP had used it might have had to pause to realise that she meant courgettes. Perhaps because this is a British website OP used the normal British word?

Just go back and edit your original post to explain that you’re Australian.

Unless you’re enjoying the fact that people are making dicks of themselves by being supercilious

It's interesting that most peoplein the UK know eggplant/aubergine & courgette/zucchini yet many US people have never heard of aubergine or courgette.

Ooh. I had to google rutabaga.

I'm pretty sure the HP sauce of my pre-Internet childhood used to list 'rutabaga' as an ingredient, much to my puzzlement. That must be one of the most British items of foodstuff in existence, it even had a picture of the Houses of Parliament on the label.

Very disappointed when I found out what a rutabaga was.

It isn't at all, but it's not as bad as 21% - I'm sure we can agree on that? 😊

Just go back and edit your original post to explain that you’re Australian.

Way too late for that.

I know -it’s the best part of the whole thread, really tickled me!

Its not a zucchini.

We don't have zucchinis in the UK.

Zucchini is a god awful word.