Cucumbers... They're Dill-icious Anytime!
A Few Facts About Cucumbers
Courtesy of Wikipedia
The cucumber is a creeping vine that roots in the ground and grows up trellises or other supporting frames, wrapping around ribbing with thin, spiraling tendrils. The plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit.
The fruit is roughly cylindrical, elongated, with tapered ends, and may be as large as 60 cm long and 10 cm in diameter. Cucumbers grown to be eaten fresh (called slicers) and those intended for pickling (called picklers) are similar. Cucumbers are mainly eaten in the unripe green form. The ripe yellow form normally becomes too bitter and sour.
Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, cucumbers are scientifically classified as fruits. Much like tomatoes and squash, however, their sour-bitter flavor contributes to cucumbers being perceived, prepared and eaten as vegetables. Still, "vegetable" is a purely culinary term, and there is no conflict in classifying cucumber as both a fruit and a vegetable.
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Did you learn something new about cucumbers?
italianheart92 wrote...
Great lens! You have a lot of really great stuff here very nice job! :)
Posted June 27, 2009
jeffwend wrote...
I love cucumbers. They are one of my favorite vegetables, good with just about everything. Blessings for cucumbers!
Posted September 04, 2008
Margo_Arrowsmith wrote...
Great photography!
And I love cucumbers as do my dalmatians, Zoe and Leo, the Princess and the Pauper! (There is a lens somewhere on here with that title where you can see them eating cucumbers! Well, Zoe is eating asparagus, but she likes them too)
Wonderful lens!
Posted August 23, 2008
Jodi_k wrote...
I love cucumbers: plain, pickled half-sours, and in cucumber slaw. Most kids in America eat PB&J sandwiches; but my mom "invented" peanut butter and cucumber on rye. Sounds off-the-wall, but it's salty, sweet, crunchy, and peanuty all at once.
Posted August 19, 2008
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