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?

A curcibet. Squash. I might have spelled it wrong. That what marrow is.

Just out of interest (because it has nothing to do with the expression 'just deserts' or even righteous puddings)- how would you pronounce the word 'deserter' (as in , for example, a person who has left the army in a disloyal or treacherous fashion)?

'Desert' as in abandoning your post is pronounced like 'dessert' not the arid 'desert', so 'deserter' likewise.

Deserter

Grown up courgette

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_(vegetable)

That link gives lists of courgette vs zucchini countries.

So there's a marrow song https://www.thewurzels.com/lyricsmarrow.htm

Chorus: Oh, what a beauty! I've never seen one as big as that before!
Oh, what a beauty! It must be two foot long or even more.
Such a lovely colour, so nice and round and fat;

You're obviously not in the UK...

She's in Australia.

If you think it’s ‘just desserts’, you’ve got another thing coming!

It’s not but spellcheck won’t let spell it correctly. It’s based on being left in a dry desert. Or just say he deserves it

I thought we used the word squash to mean anything besides pumpkins that are a member of the gourd family. Zucchini is used because it sounds more fun to say zucchini bread instead of courgette or squash bread.

Really though, I don't know. I didn't even know that there were so many different shapes/varieties of zucchini. It's one of very few fruits/vegetables I don't like, along with most types of squash in general. It's confusing enough to know that squash, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant and more are actually fruits, let alone the many varieties and ways to use them. Maybe I have been missing something?

I also had no idea so many varieties of squash and pumpkins existed. I knew plain pumpkins (knew there were different shapes, colors etc., but put them all into the same slot), yellow, acorn, crookneck, spaghetti and butternut and that's as far as I ever got. But there are at least 50. Mind-blowing.

Rude and/or ignorant comment.

It is the correct word in the U.K., and Mumsnet is a predominantly UK forum.

Words vary across the world, educate yourself before telling us we are wrong!

Almost but not quite - it's spelt desert and pronounced dessert (and autocucumber courgette correct clearly gets confused by it), but it's nothing to do with either puddings or dry places. It's another use of "desert" that means "what you deserve".

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

Or yes, we could avoid this whole thing by just saying the person deserves it!

@ThisKindOpalCrab why don't you piss off back to the US then, if you find us so annoying.

Because ThisKindOpalCrab was simply highlighting the number of posters who make sweeping generalizations and assumptions about Americans, even where it's not even relevant? The poster people keep claiming is American is Australian. But you'd know that if you'd read any of the thread. Did you think that 400+ posts in you were the first person to reply to the 4th post on the thread?

@MegTheForgetfulCat I don't care who else has replied. I read down threads and reply to comments where and when I feel like it. I can state my opinion if one or 12 thousand people have said it.

I'm Australian and with you....its a zucchini and an eggplant!

How sad that you are so insular and uneducated in anything outside your own country, that you had to 'google the word courgette' 🤦‍♀️ The world doesn't stop at your borders! And here in the UK we are all aware that courgette/zucchini are the same thing...but we prefer the French version 👌🏻

I should have written Canadians too. I’m Canadian living in the UK. It grinds my gears when I go home and hear Canadians using ‘cilantro’ instead of coriander, pronouncing basil, pasta and risotto the American way. This has all happened since I moved away. I guess I’m bonkers though. 🙄

Cancel the cheque!!!

I was referring to in the States.

Acorn squash was acorn squash. Saying that, I haven’t seen yellow courgettes or acorn squash in any of my major supermarkets in Oxfordshire.

pronouncing basil, pasta and risotto the American way

How do Americans pronounce risotto, then?

HERES ONE!
(There's been a recent argument regarding this on here...)

There are so many variety of different fruits and vegetables that most are not aware of unless you get into gardening or read the packaging if it says the variety. I was telling my family about my garden and they were shocked that you could grow purple tomatoes, pink blueberries, golden raspberries and white strawberries. Just showing them how strawberries grew was a lesson since they had never seen them other than in the stores.

I think more often than not when it comes to most varieties it is just ease for people to know what they’re picking up especially if they’re following a recipe or have a particular purpose. A butternut squash is different internally from a spaghetti squash and you probably can’t make a lantern out of either of those squashes like you can a pumpkin.

It grinds my gears when I go home and hear Canadians using ‘cilantro’ instead of coriander

Weird thing to be annoyed about. Cilantro is Spanish for coriander and referring to the leaves and stems while coriander is referring to the seeds in the States. They both have completely different taste. India does the same thing, having separate names for different parts of the coriander plant.

Instead of being annoyed about why certain countries call different things xyz, why not look it up and try to see why vs thinking they’re automatically wrong or did it just to be different.

An adult courgette.

Yes - baysil, parsta, and……?