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?

Not to mention cilantro and coriander.

It's a courgette.

I've just Googled "just deserts"! Fascinating! You learn something every day!

@IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle - interesting! I've lived on two sides of the country and never heard anything other than diluting juice. Goes to show that there are always differences.

I think zucchini is the American word for courgette.

You must not live in the UK. They are called courgettes here.

It is just deserts (but pronounced desserts).....come from the word deserve.

I only realised this about 12 months ago

🙄

we’re not all American.

@Zippidydoodah we’re not all American.

Indeed we're not, that poster is an Australian.😂

I have heard it called squash but I live near Newcastle and have always called it 'dilutey juice'.

only 2 places i've been to anyway, it's a n italian spelling but wouldn't be surprised if there were similar versions in other romance languages. And also perhaps in Canada being America's close neighbour!

Fairy cake! My blue bero book says (or should that be say’s 😉) so

Also, i learned really recently that cucumbers are supposed to be kept out of the fridge, even once you started eating some. It keeps much longer. Mind blown!

You do realise this is a UK website?

Courgette is what we call this vegetable in England.

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

Obviously I failed to RTFT ...

Always remember someone interrupting mine and my US cousin’s chat in a US supermarket. This American guy got very upset as I described how UK and France call them courgettes. He was insistent everywhere (inc France) called them zucchini. He could not grasp zucchini is an Italian word.

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......)

But it dries out?

Now I guess I have to buy 2 cucumbers and keep one in the fridge and one out and see which one lasts longer.

It’s a courgette in the UK 🇬🇧 😉

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?

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

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.

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.

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.