"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:43:39 -0000, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
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>>"Bruce" > wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 07:50:53 -0300, wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:24:22 -0600, Janet B >
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:55:43 -0300, wrote:
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>>>>>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:31:00 -0600, Janet B >
>>>>>>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 he
>>>>>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'
>>>
>>> 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
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> I'm still not a big fan. We always had cucumber chunks with Indonesian
> food when I was growing up.

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