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?

Squash is squash. Is there another word for squash in common usage by people whose first language is English? Pumpkin is similar but different. They are both gourds.

It really isn’t!!! 😂

“its” is possessive and It’s is short for It is - maybe it was that damn autocorrect -

It wouldn't be bizarre because countries have their own words for things. It's offensive to assume they wouldn't.

But to clarify, I was pointing out that the previous poster was incorrect about the type of pancakes American call flapjacks. Scotch pancakes and American pancakes being virtually the same except potentially in size. Not that there is a specific standard size for pancakes in America.

We use the French courgette in the UK whilst Americsns use the Italian Zucchini. Both are right.

It’s about preserving the cucumber for a longer period cucumbers are a more high value item than courgettes therefore there are not the margins in courgette sales to wrap them
act the shelf life for the later is a little longer to
tbh I hate plastic wrapping on anything it’s quite crazy environmentally it doesn’t get recycled. Let’s stop Buying stuff with packaging like this.

Courgettes in England

Eggplant is definitely American, they're melanzana in Italy, though that does explain zucchini.

Prime example of Americans believing the entire world revolves around them.

Why is something American, if it is also used in Australia?

Courgettes are likely to be cooked. A cucumber is eaten as it is. You would be eating a cucumber straight from the supermarket. Even when washed it's unhygienic.

Eh,!! guess your not British then.

Prime example of a MNer assuming everything that annoys them is American.

But bananas, apples, oranges, potatoes, carrots and the like are all sold loose too? I’ve never seen a ‘loose’ cucumber in a supermarket. I just find it weird is all.

It’s a reasonable assumption given that you’ve never heard of the terms courgette, aubergine etc. So what country are you from then? Clearly not UK, unless you are trolling.

Not all native English speakers living outside the UK are American.

I'm sure you can get loose organic cucumbers, or have I imagined it?

Why isn't a pumpkin a squash?

Is the plural of zucchini zucchine? Like salami and salame?

But then why is the singular of panini panino?

Anyone?

Then why do you
folks call Melanza 'Eggplant' then? 🇺🇸
(and no, not using the emoji 😁)

Hello. It's only zucchini in countries that use that word. Most British-English speakers don't know that Americans call it zucchini, but they know what a courgette is. Wait till you see the expression on a British person's face when you try to talk about the salad leaf Rocket and sound like you are trying to pronounce the sound of an emergency alarm.

I think it's a type of squash. In the UK squash usually means butternut squash. The other types are less commonly available.

Autocorrect fail at the worst moment! I know it is just deserts.

True, it isn't, with 21% of Americans being functionally illiterate, however, @WillIEverBeOk is Australian.

Oh dear Lord!!!

Yes, but the thing is, that although I’m from the UK, so call them courgettes and aubergines, I (and most people, I would say) have at least heard of zucchini and eggplant and, what’s more, a lot of people even know what they are! It strikes me as very insular to literally not ever have come across the words before! Maybe coming from a big country (USA, Australia…) really does make you less aware of the rest of the world?

Zucchini is the plural. Singular would be zucchino but no one says that.