Dear Give a Gripe,
What's up with the Zucchini? Why must it look so much like the Cucumber?
Sincerely, Moo
Dear Moo,
You can find the answer to your question by parallelling it to the animal kingdom. Why does a king snake look so much like a coral snake? Why do zebras look so much like tigers? Why does Michael Jackson look like a white guy?
Camoflauge. Just as animals use camoflauge to prevent becoming prey, so do vegetables to prevent becoming pureed. (Play on words fully intended)
Zucchini is considered the bane of the vegetable kingdom. It's squishy, slimy and has a bitter aftertaste. It is so bad in fact, that I used to cry when forced to eat it. Because it hasn't been working this last week, I've come up with a better tactic to rid myself of the evil squash. I point behind my parents head and exclaim, "Look! A 3 headed monkey!" and then promptly scrape my zucchini onto my brothers plate.
Cucumber, on the contrary, is much more refreshing and goes quite well on salads. However, kids still don't like cucumber. Why? Because it reminds them of zucchini. I hated cucumber before I even got the chance to try it, and stayed away from it until curiousity got the best of me.
So you see that the reason for the similarity between zucchini and cucumber is just another survival tactic. Cucumber disguises itself as a nasty vegetable to prevent being eaten. Though seeing that cucumbers end up on dinner salads daily, one could argue that their method doesn't work very well....
But they don't need to know that...
~Hol
Thursday
What's Up with Zucchini?
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2 comments:
Also, you could look at it like chicken. Have you ever noticed that next to every meat imaginable somehow, some way, tastes at least a little like chicken? The leading theory in explaining this is that God either A) Started out with chicken, then made everything else based off that, or B) Made everything else, then suddenly remembered he had to make chicken taste like something, couldn't come up with an idea, so he just said, "Ah, to heck with it. Let's put a little of everything in there."
The same can be said for zucchini in the vegetable realm. My personal pet theory in this case is that God had just gotten through creating carrots, peas, pickles, cucumbers, squash - you know, the veggie bunch - then had this other... THING, leftover, looked like a pickle, wasn't a pickle, he didn't really know what to call it, mumbled a little, and pretty much tossed in everything else. THAT is why if you close your eyes while eating ANY vegetable, and WILL yourself to PRETEND you're eating zucchini, the vegetable does all the work for you, because, in fact, it helped create the overall taste of said zucchini. That's my theory anyway.
What the heck? Pretty random, but sounds like a good theory
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