What is it again?

[tsaiko]

On Saturday, I went to the grocery store by myself since miome wasn't up to it. I'm not fond of grocery shopping, but I'm also not fond of not having anything to eat. So off I went.

One of the things on the list was zucchini. I was in the produce section looking for it and couldn't locate any. Just as I was about to ask a store employee, I noticed a bin of yellow squash. Since zucchini is a type of squash, I figured it would be near by.

I was right. Sort of.

Beside it was a bin labeled "green squash." It was full of zucchini. Is this just a Virginia thing or what? I've never seen it called "green squash" before, though that's technically correct. I asked Miome when I got home, and she'd never heard it called that either. She also agreed that it was technically correct.

Not that it mattered much. The guy at the register rang it up as a cucumber. Which I guess I can understand, since they are both green, elongated, vaguely phallic fruits posing as vegetables.

Strange fact of the day: zucchini are swollen plant ovaries. The more you know, the more you wish you didn't.

Comments

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I don't know if an employee would have known what I was talking about. It's an interesting question. I've never had to ask the employees there so I don't even know the relative level of competence.

And when you tell them it's zucchini, not cucumber, some of them will ask "what's that?" or "they're different?"

Man, I'd love for them to take a bite out of each and then hear what they have to say about them being the same. >:D

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

The seeds I used this past summer for zucchini actually said 'summer squash' on the packet, with a picture of zucchini. *shrugs* They were definitely zucchini.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Turns out that zucchini is a summer squash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_squash), but not all summer squash are zucchini.

[akichan.livejournal.com]

I usually see it referred to as zucchini he-WAIT! You're in Virginia?!

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am in Virginia, and have been for the last year and a half.

:D

[akichan.livejournal.com]

Why didn't I know this?! Where?!

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Up near the DC area. Alexandria, to be precise. Although i often tag stuff with washington_dc, because unless you are from this area, that's where people think I live.

[akichan.livejournal.com]

Ah, a little far from me. :(

Still, closer than me dragging my ass to Raleigh or Greensboro these days. :P

*hug*