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Title: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: Mrs Ava on July 29, 2005, 19:19:17
But number one daughter was thrilled when she spotted this cucumber under the cloche at the allotment!
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/Mrsava/jesscuc.jpg)

(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/Mrsava/cucmber.jpg)
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: redimp on July 29, 2005, 20:14:29
I defence of the EU it is the supermarkets who demanded straight cucumbers to save on packaging costs.
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: Icyberjunkie on July 29, 2005, 20:54:50
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  My wifey is gross!   There was I admiring your cucumber when she went "EWWWWwww"  :o "what is that? "...  A cucumber says I.   "No, says she - what is it on? someones fat belly?"

I shan't repeat the rest of the conversation leading to my explaining about work tops but with this level of madness my poor children have no chance of avoiding our genetic inheritance!  :-\

;D
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: Mrs Ava on July 29, 2005, 22:49:00
HAHAHAHAHHA Oh Icy, I shall never look at my marble chopping board the same again!
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: lorna on July 29, 2005, 22:58:33
EJ May we now see pic of no 1 daughter without her moustache please. ;D It looks like she has inherited her lovely looks from her Nan, lucky girl. Lorna.
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: Roy Bham UK on July 29, 2005, 23:51:13
;D A cool Cucumber, displayed by a cool model displaying a cool T shirt with a motif of a cool come dancing logo, am I right on all counts? ;D
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 30, 2005, 03:50:55
Apparently the Victorians used to think bent cucumbers were a sign of moral degeneracy. They used glass tubes to force them to grow straight.
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: GREENWIZARD on July 30, 2005, 08:41:50
thus making them even more phallic RB :o :o ;D
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: wardy on July 30, 2005, 10:17:55
I saw one of those cucumber straighteners last week.  They were huge.  They must have grown whoppers in them days  ;D   
Title: Re: Wouldn't pass the European Union!
Post by: amphibian on July 30, 2005, 13:28:21
Quote from: redclanger on July 29, 2005, 20:14:29
I defence of the EU it is the supermarkets who demanded straight cucumbers to save on packaging costs.

As silly a ruling as it might at first seem, the implications for reducing packaging are massive, straight cucumbers are more efficient to pack, meaning less boxes need to go on a lorry, and therefore less fuel is used.