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?

Do all UK supermarkets package cucumbers? I shop in Lidl (in Germany), and I haven't ever seen a cucumber in packaging. Courgettes also roam naked here, too.

Of course they roam naked... it's Germany!

Never heard of mangetout. That’s snow peas in Australian.

Only in Italy and America!

You’re not British?

I'm loving this thread. It's the perfect thread to link to when people say there is no anti American sentiment on MN.

I'll continue to watch posters humiliate themselves for the chance to get the uppity "American"😂.

Maybe she's English...

You're sure of that?

I have some Australian Women's Weekly cookery books and they call it Kumara, but yes you could be correct and it could just be a NZ thing?

One for the Aussies - why capsicum and not red/green/yellow pepper? And which do Americans use?

Cucumbers and plastic, remove them from the plastic and place them in a glass of water, makes them last much longer. For pity's sake do not put them in the fridge as they have a pretty delicate cell structure like strawberries, so that if they start to freeze and turn to ice, this pierces the cells and they turn to mush.

<Waits for someone to come after her for using pity's rather than pities'>

And also a prime example of what happens when people don't RTFT.

Cancel the check you bought the zucchini with?

Bell pepper

Comes at you for what?

Xenophobia or for using a term like moronic?

Is having American family similar to "I've got a black friend"?

Wtf? Who doesn’t know what a courgette is?

And to answer the actual OP!

I think courgettes/zucchini are a bit sturdier internally (regardless of skin) and last for two years until I can be bothered to cook the dinner that healthy me planned and real me can't face.

Cucumbers don't last long at all

Wtf? Who doesn’t know what a courgette is?

At least one poster from Down Under, and probably also some Americans,

Er...no it isn't. It is as a contraction is it's.

Its as a possessive is its. No apostrophe.

I realise I am probably the eighth person to point this out by the time I've (contraction there, see?) hit send, but I can't (whoops there's another one, and another) let it lie.

Tbf the Aussie poster's first reply did come across as a little rude (and then there was some doubling down) so I think that is what has rattled some people's chains.

Courgette

We’re not in France either to be fair 😄 Americans use Italian word (as they all claim to be Italian (or Irish) - and Aussies apparently! - and we use the French!

Canadians say zucchini and eggplant
I'm Canadian.

America = zucchini
UK = courgette

Where does everyone stand on 'squash'? I remember being very puzzled by the recipe Beth in Little Women gave for cooking them when I was a child.

She was absolutely rude, but individual rude people don't make it acceptable to respond that way about an entire country.

If you're going to assume Americans are stupid and unaware of other countries, please first remember that other countries that speak English exist. It's a bit ironic really.

And as an actual American who has used mumsnet for 15 years or so, this is the first time I've seen a foreigner pick up someone about word use

It's always British posters complaining a word has been used that is gasp American.

Even when the poster is from Birmingham and repeats repeatedly that she has always said "mom" and not in anyway influenced by YouTube.