TS: lettuce vs cucumber

Some lettuce is better than some cucumber and the other way around - it's too hard to call.

But, thinking about it some more, I think that lettuce has never ruined a sandwich for me whereas cucumber has so, lettuce it is!

Some cucumber? All cucumber is the same!

Lettuce.

cucumber not only tastes horrific it stains the taste of everything around it

lettuce by a street. the only good cucumbers are gherkins.

I like cucumber in thin, circular slices, but not so much in chunks.

gherkins are cucumbers???? what are pickles?

sea lettuce vs. sea cucumber

pickles are gherkins are cornichons are small, marinaded cucumbers, right?

Most of the lettuce & cucumber I have ever seen has been part of some depressing 'side salad' though, so usually they're both duds really. Taking sides would be like supporting a rugby team.

Both great.

xp Take it to the "sport problems" thread, mac.

gherkins are cucumbers???? what are pickles?

-- sunny successor, Monday, October 22, 2007 11:29 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Uh, you know that pickles are pickled cucumbers, right? So gherkins are pickles are cucumbers.

i had no idea. i like pickles.

cucumbers can go f themselves with a cucumber tho

I can't tell when people are kidding anymore.

this poll should just be called "bad cucumbers vs. bad lettuce" because that's mostly what you get in US (and maybe also UK?) markets

Most of the lettuce & cucumber I have ever seen has been part of some depressing 'side salad' though, so usually they're both duds really. Taking sides would be like supporting a rugby team.

this thread was partly inspired by the David Baddiel vs Russell Brand thread

good cucumber is tasty chopped up with good tomato, feta, olive oil and lemon

cucumber's great, but def. small pickling cukes >>>> regular fat cucumbers >>>> english cucumbers

yeah, the small cukes are generally tastier whether pickled or not

monsters of cuke are dud

Cucumbers are pretty much my favorite vegetable.

lettuces:

lollo rossa
rouge d’hiver
celtuce

Those seedless (or near-seedless, tiny-seeded) cucumbers are pretty great. My parents grew a bunch of them this year so I ate many.

I love cucumbers! Cucumber and dill salad - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I just had one of those moments where a word looks really werid even though you know it's spelled correctly. Cucumbers. Weird.

cucumber not only tastes horrific it stains the taste of everything around it

I actually searched for a thread about cucumbers just so I could see if anyone agreed with me about this. Got into a mild argument with some people about whether or not cucumber has a smell/taste at all today, which seems completely mental to me. It has an incredibly strong scent which I can detect from across the room even if I don't know it's there (and the scent of someone having cut a cucumber can linger in a room for hours even if the actual cucumber is eaten and gone) and an incredibly strong taste which seeps out onto everything it touches. It pretty much only exists to ruin sushi and to be made into tasty kosher dill pickles, which for some reason don't bother me at all.

Cucumber has a huge smell/taste! But it is the absolute best taste.

I have had this argument with people about celery. Some people seem to think it has no taste but I'll tell you what, IT DOES TO HAVE A TASTE AND THAT TASTE IS VILE.

Same. It also has a really strong smell! In my brief career as a cashier I could always tell when my customers were buying celery or cucumber before they even put it on the conveyor belt.

I'm okay with cucumber but not with celery

i could not live without celery

i mean, not for raw eating but essential for mirepoix & broths & soups

and celery seed!

and diced real fine for mayonnaise-based salads

I love the taste of both celery and cucumber

vegetables should be venerated, not shunned

certain fruits that get lumped into the vegetable pile like okra can go die in a fire, tho

(actually cucumber is actually a fruit too, isn't it)

i mean, not for raw eating but essential for mirepoix & broths & soups

I try to use celery salt when I can get away with it, otherwise I just make sure to cut the celery big enough that there's no chance I'll end up eating some. I find its taste tempered by being cooked in soup but there's nothing to be done for that texture.

And yes, Dan, cucumber is a fruit.

I love cucumber so much that even though I objectively understand that people experience the world differently and like different things than I do, I truly cannot understand how somebody doesn't like a cucumber.

Lettuce I can take or leave, depending on the context.

(Okra is great, too. Pro tip for okra: cut into half-inch chunks and saute with some olive oil and salt in a pan until they are browned at the edges. Gets rid of the slime and the result is delicious.)

it's ok, i feel the same absolute disgust & contempt for green bell peppers that some of you reserve for celery & cukes

I also hate green bell peppers. Red and orange and yellow are all great, though.

Can you extract sunbeams from lettuce, think Gulliver thought you could from cucumbers