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?

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

Where are you?

It's "Murphy's Law"!!! 😉

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Mind blown😲😲😲😲😲😲

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.

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.

Zucchini in Italy, courgette here.

no the plastic covering isnt because it needs a bar code
plenty of fruit/vegetables are sold without being weighedd, red peppers for example

cucumbers tend not to have plastic covers in greengrocers

Honestly. It's "just deserts" very commonly - but incorrectly - written as "just desserts" 😊

I think they last 3x longer in plastic so may depend on frequency of deliveries/turn around of produce.