"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2014-07-06, James Silverton > wrote:
>
>> I did not peel the cucumber. Was it horrible of me to add red food
>> coloring?
>
> No, it's the cucumber. What breach of common logic ever possessed you
> to not peel the cuke? Who eats cuke skin? It's one of the very few
> things I'm actually phyiscally allergic to. Besides, what color did
> you expect from red and grn? If you added yel onions ....brown!!
>
> As for the flavor, add a buncha cumin.
>
> nb

I hate it when people dispute other people's allergies. But this is a
stretch even for me. IO can see a cucumber allergy. But to the skin? Only
perhaps if it is something on the skin. Like a wax or something.

I leave the skin on cucumbers for many things. And if you ever ate a
pickle, you ate the skin.