those long English cucumbers

[Janet B]

I don't know how they sell. Those long, shrink-wrapped English
cucumbers smell funny and taste off. Every once in awhile I get a
craving for cucumber during the winter and I buy one of those
cucumbers. I think they are nasty. Since they are available
everywhere, I have to assume that many people like them. I'm hoping
the vinegar and oil salad dressing for tonight will cover the taste.
Janet US

[lucreti...@fl.it]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:31:00 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>
wrote:

I don't particularly associate them with England but I much prefer
them to the local cukes.

[Jeßus]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:31:00 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>
wrote:

>

I'm pretty sure I know the ones you mean, I personally like them.
I don't think there is anything particularly English about them
though?

[col...@gmail.com]

Hogs root cukes out of their pen.

[Dave Smith]

I don' know what you are talking about. Maybe you need to find a new
source. We get English cucumbers all the time and they are fine. Since
they are seedless there is a lot less waste, since some people like to
remove the seeds from the regular cukes.



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[Janet B]

It may be that is the variety name that I know from seed catalogs.
see here:
http://tinyurl.com/z769y5v
Janet US

[Janet B]

It could be that the flavor and smell is just something that I don't
like. Kind of like the cilantro or beet haters. :(
Janet US

[Dave Smith]

On 2016-03-23 9:27 PM, Janet B wrote:

> It could be that the flavor and smell is just something that I don't
> like. Kind of like the cilantro or beet haters. :(
>

I have not noticed any particular difference in taste between regular
and English cucumbers, but they do seem to have a slightly crisper texture.

[Brooklyn1]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:27:12 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>
wrote:

They're encased in cling wrap because their skin is too fragile for
waxing. Very often those cukes are old and beginning to ferment...
those who enjoy them are definitely affliced with TIAD. I grow a
tremendous amount of cucumbers so I rarely buy any, especially not off
season. My favorite cuke is the kirby, a pickling cucumber... the
trick with any cucumber is to harvest them small, no more than 4",
before seeds develop. Cucumbers are best eaten within the day they
are picked, they really don't store well, not unless they are pickled.
Cucumbers at the market produce section are always old, I won't buy
those... I eat cucumbers all through their growing season within an
hour of picking... there's a huge difference between freshly picked
cukes and stupidmarket compost fodder. If you want those long English
cukes they are very easy to grow, when eaten freshly picked they won't
stink or taste strange. A dozen cuke plants will keep a family of
four well supplied. I like cucumbers a lot so I typically put in
minimally two dozen plants, I like vinegared cucumber salad with
onions and white pepper. I already bought all my vegetable seeds.

[Colonel Edmund J. Burke]

Janet, normally these cucumbers are delicious. Perhaps you got the ones
Miss Recktum was using to dildo her colostomy hole?

And remember this: a cuke a day keeps lesbians away.

[Janet B]

I grow my own as well. My favorite is Sweet Success and is best
picked at about 12 inches. I really don't usually buy cucumbers at
the store and especially not in the winter. I just had a craving and
now I know for sure that I can't have cucumbers in the winter.
I think maybe the cucumber that I bought absorbed the flavor and smell
from the shrink wrap that was around it. I guess I'll just have to
wait until July.
Janet US

[propinquity]

On 3/23/2016 8:53 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> AKA Hothouse Cucumbers.
>
> -sw
You criminally STALK and ABUSE women, you sick little dwarfy man!

Here's what you did when you went all over the Usenet impersonating the
well-liked regular named "sf" and posting all her personal data on the
net against her will, including her:

* home address
* age
* cell phone number
* husband's name

etc.

YOU did that, you evil bastard!

And then you had the hubris to actually GLOAT about in public saying:

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She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so
a conviction should be a piece of cake and then forging would stop.
So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just
loves the attention and drama and screw the rest of the group.

-sw

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And before that you literally stalked poor Omelet, a local Auustin
favorite, right off the Usenet!

In your worst moment ever you actually begged her to KILL you:

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Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles.

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I'd prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away.
There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

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Then after having your nose rubbed in your filthy criminal stalking you
came back with, not an apology, nor the slightest remorse, just this:


"The facebook group is much more pleasant."


But we all know that's only because you cower over there in mortal fear
of being booted by the FB admins.

You're _so done_ here virus, I mean really fucking done.

I'm making you a project like no other, expect a lot more of your evil
abuse and hatred to be aired for all to see here.

And we both know there's a google archive full of your hatred of women
just waiting to be hung out on the virtual clothesline to dry.

Enjoy then, you rotten, worthless misogynistic bastard!

[Bruce]

Aren't they called continental cucumbers in Australia, as opposed to
the shorter "Lebanese" ones?

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[Julie Bove]

"Janet B" <nos...@cableone.net> wrote in message
news:4j96fb1hebod3o2b4...@4ax.com...

I buy them all the time. They're fine. For cucumbers. Which are not one
of my favorite foods. There's no wax on the outside and they are burpless.

[Cindy Hamilton]

We like them better because the seeds are smaller and softer, and the
skin is thinner. They taste just like the others, as far as we can tell.

Once in a while we get one that's old, and the flesh is a little
yellow and the taste is off. Perhaps the turnover at your grocers
is too slow. On the other hand, I've had that same experience with
standard cukes, too.

Cindy Hamilton

[lucreti...@fl.it]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:58:13 +1100, Jeßus <j...@j.invalid> wrote:

Perhaps the connotation of English Cucumber Sandwiches. That's
something I think you really have to use that type of cucumber for if
you want it to be 'delicate' - the field type cucumber does not make
them the same way.

[lucreti...@fl.it]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:24:22 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>

wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:55:43 -0300, lucreti...@fl.it wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:31:00 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I don't know how they sell. Those long, shrink-wrapped English
>>>cucumbers smell funny and taste off. Every once in awhile I get a
>>>craving for cucumber during the winter and I buy one of those
>>>cucumbers. I think they are nasty. Since they are available
>>>everywhere, I have to assume that many people like them. I'm hoping
>>>the vinegar and oil salad dressing for tonight will cover the taste.
>>>Janet US
>>
>>I don't particularly associate them with England but I much prefer
>>them to the local cukes.
>
>It may be that is the variety name that I know from seed catalogs.
>see here:
>http://tinyurl.com/z769y5v
>Janet US

Those are the ones I thought you meant, generally raised in
greenhouses here and the others are referred to as 'field cukes'

[Bruce]

In Europe that's just a cucumber. Nothing English about them. Except
that they have little flavour maybe :)

--
Bruce

[Julie Bove]

"Bruce" <Br...@Bruce.invalid> wrote in message
news:tuh7fblq52mt3mqe2...@4ax.com...

Hmmm... Here, the commonly available one is shorter, usually thicker and
has a creepy wax coating. They are cheaper though. Sometimes about half
the price of those labeled English.

[Bruce]

I don't know those from Europe -although they must have them- but
they're common in Australia as Lebanese cucumbers. I don't remember a
wax coating though.

--
Bruce

[Ophelia]

"Bruce" <Br...@Bruce.invalid> wrote in message
news:tuh7fblq52mt3mqe2...@4ax.com...

True. When I was a child they were always sliced very thinly. I never saw
the point. Since then I have learned to eat a chunk and they are
refreshing:)


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[Brooklyn1]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:43:39 -0000, "Ophelia" <OphEl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

The Kirby is my favorite:
http://www.foodsubs.com/Squcuke.html
http://mideastfood.about.com/od/middleeasternfoodfaqs/a/cucumbers.htm
http://parkseed.com/Category.aspx?c=cucumber&utm_source=msn&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Vegetable%20Broad&utm_content=Cucumber&utm_term=cucumber%20garden%20seeds&CAPCID=1106349745&CADEVICE=c&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Vegetable%20Broad&utm_term=cucumber%20garden%20seeds&utm_content=Vegetable%20Broad_Cucumber&CA_6C15C=1273050765
http://www.burpee.com/search?q=cucumber

[Boron Elgar]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:31:00 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>
wrote:

>

I will only buy them in the 3-pack from Costco, but am always careful
to make sure isn't a hint of soft spots. Their turn-over is pretty
good, so I haven't gotten any duds.

I do like the taste of the long, English ones, but nothing tastes like
fresh-picked. I do have to say, though, that I grow different
varieties each year and sometimes wind up with some lousy cukes - too
bitter, too many seeds, not crispy enough, etc.

[Janet B]

O.k., a different name then. I've never tried growing them so I don't
know if they taste different if straight off the vine.
Janet US

[Janet B]

I have been growing this variety, Sweet Success, for years and years.
http://s1171.photobucket.com/user/gemlass1315/media/September%20Gleanings%205_zpsvjsvyfnw.jpg.html
Typical size is 12-14 inches, seedless, burpless and sweet
(vegetatively sweet). The seeds are pricey. I am beginning to be
able to find them as plants at the nursery.
http://parkseed.com/sweet-success-hybrid-cucumber-seeds/p/05592-PK-P1/
I highly recommend them. I have grown them through all kinds of good
and disappointing seasons and they are always good.
Janet US

[Bruce]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:43:39 -0000, "Ophelia" <OphEl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>

I'm still not a big fan. We always had cucumber chunks with Indonesian
food when I was growing up.

--
Bruce

[Bruce]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:00:24 -0600, Janet B <nos...@cableone.net>

I've grown them and to me they tasted as pedestrian.

--
Bruce

[Colonel Edmund J. Burke]

On 3/24/2016 11:20 AM, NEMO wrote:

> When 'Pleasance' creeps up behind you, can you tell when it's a
> cucumber as oppposed to something else???
>

Sometimes Pleasance has, in the past that is, taken certain "liberties"
with a cucumber.
Wot of it, you whore?

[Jeßus]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 05:46:11 +1100, Bruce <Br...@Bruce.invalid> wrote:


>I've grown them and to me they tasted as pedestrian.

I thought you were vegetarian?

[Jeßus]

Ahh, yes. I couldn't think of the names used in Aus. Lebanese
cucumbers is the one I'm most familiar with. English... Lebanese...
whatever :)

[Jeßus]

In a sandwich like that I agree the type of cucumber makes a big
difference. I like cucumber sandwiches too, very yummy. You might be
right about the reason behind the naming.

[Bruce]

lol

--
Bruce

[Julie Bove]

"Bruce" <Br...@Bruce.invalid> wrote in message

news:vbc8fbhkrddq0l7ib...@4ax.com...

My mom always peeled, sliced and plunged into iced vinegar water. I did not
like that.

[Ophelia]

"Bruce" <Br...@Bruce.invalid> wrote in message

news:vbc8fbhkrddq0l7ib...@4ax.com...

>>> In Europe that's just a cucumber. Nothing English about them. Except
>>> that they have little flavour maybe :)
>>
>>True. When I was a child they were always sliced very thinly. I never
>>saw
>>the point. Since then I have learned to eat a chunk and they are
>>refreshing:)
>
> I'm still not a big fan. We always had cucumber chunks with Indonesian
> food when I was growing up.

What is that like? They used to cut ours paper thin (skin on) and in a
dish with vinegar.

I like mine peeled and just a chunk to eat with salt. Not that I do that
very often ...


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[Bruce]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:25:00 -0000, "Ophelia" <OphEl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Cut into thick wedges, au naturel. Maybe originally to offset the
Indonesian heat and hot food.

Salt's a good idea. I'd like anything with them that gives them a bit
of oomph.

--
Bruce

[Gary]

I like cucumbers. I like them peeled then sliced in a green salad. Cut
the round slices in half too. I also like to peel and cut them into
spears and dip in a mix of mayo and ketchup.

[graham]

That takes me back to when I was a post-grad and a group of us would
occasionally go to The Hallamshire, a pub on West Street, for a pint and
a beef or pork sandwich. There was always a big bowl of cuke slices in
vinegar and I used to load up my sandwich with them.
Graham

[Dave Smith]

Sliced cucumbers in a bowl of cucumbers was a summer time regular on our
dinner table when I was a kid.

[Sqwertz]

On 3/25/2016 11:32 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> Seems kinda redundant.
>
> -sw
You criminally STALK and ABUSE women, you sick little dwarfy man!

Here's what you did when you went all over the Usenet impersonating the
well-liked regular named "sf" and posting all her personal data on the
net against her will, including her:

* home address
* age
* cell phone number
* husband's name

etc.

YOU did that, you evil bastard!

And then you had the hubris to actually GLOAT about in public saying:

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MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4
ab...@blocknews.net


She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so
a conviction should be a piece of cake and then forging would stop.
So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just
loves the attention and drama and screw the rest of the group.

-sw

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


And before that you literally stalked poor Omelet, a local Auustin
favorite, right off the Usenet!

In your worst moment ever you actually begged her to KILL you:

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Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles.

-sw
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I'd prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away.
There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then after having your nose rubbed in your filthy criminal stalking you
came back with, not an apology, nor the slightest remorse, just this:


"The facebook group is much more pleasant."


But we all know that's only because you cower over there in mortal fear
of being booted by the FB admins.

You're _so done_ here virus, I mean really fucking done.

I'm making you a project like no other, expect a lot more of your evil
abuse and hatred to be aired for all to see here.

And we both know there's a google archive full of your hatred of women
just waiting to be hung out on the virtual clothesline to dry.

Enjoy then, you rotten, worthless misogynistic bastard!

[Julie Bove]

"Sqwertz" <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote in message
news:1nqmdkq6os2qf$.dlg@sqwertz.com...

> On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:51:56 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> Sliced cucumbers in a bowl of cucumbers was a summer time regular on our
>> dinner table when I was a kid.
>

> Seems kinda redundant.

I thought so too! Ah those nutty Canadians. What will they think of next?

[Ophelia]

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Aye them were t'days eh? :))) Do you ever still make any?

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[Colonel Edmund J. Burke]

On 3/24/2016 4:27 PM, NEMO wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:27:16 -0700, "Colon Edmud Jackass Burchese of

> Are you SURE it was a cucumber he was using??? LOLOK
>
He is a she, you warped harlot!