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?

perhaps cucumbers are getting bashed about in transport?

It's courgette!!!! Are you American?!?!

it is to protect them and prevent moisture loss

australian!

Every day’s a school day!

Maybe because they are courgettes !

Thanks i prob should have rtft😂

i think 99% of us are guilty of this, myself included, such is our desire to correct the poster regarding zucchinis

@WillIEverBeOk
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@WillIEverBeOk Being Australian doesn’t excuse you. You know Mumsnet isn’t an Australian forum, so why be rude and say we are using “strange words”?

I can confirm that cats are scared of cucumbers. DD read it somewhere and we had to find out!

Oh dear 🤣🤣 It really isn’t. There was a VERY long thread about it, did you miss it?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/just-deserts-or-just-desserts

No, for the umpteenth time, it really is just deserts. Deserts = what you deserve.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/just-deserts-or-just-desserts

@Crunchymum The poster who put this was joking - there was a massive barney on a thread about this the other day.

@WillIEverBeOk - a barney is an argument in the Scots vernacular 😉

I could care less.

<runs away laughing>

Sorry.

Never mind all that.

What I want to know is why you have an apostrophe in 'assume'?

To wind you up. 😂

Given the fact that American culture is very popular and everywhere to watch it makes sense that the British are aware of American words. It has even been mentioned in other threads that many young, British children use Americanisms nowadays due to the fact that they have too much screen time. As a non-native speaker what I don't like is Americans dropping in conversation baseball or American football terms as I don't understand either.

You say zucchini, I say courgettes, you say celantro, I say corriander, potato, potato, tomato, tomato, let’s call the whole thing off…

Yes, 'just deserts' was on another thread recently, and despite knowing lots about language I actually learnt something new there.

What happened?

X-posted!

There is swede in Branston pickle. Only it's called rutabaga which is what a swede is called in the US. Sneaky eh?

Not in the UK.

eg Courgette cake with icing.