OT: Hey US folks - throw away your guns and grow courgettes

[garthman]

 

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154757576

[Terry Allan Hall]

When courgettes are outlawed, only outlaws will have courgettes...

[Queequeg]

courgettes to ploughshares, I say.

[totamus]

You can have my courgette when you pry my cold dead fingers off of it.

[seagullplayer77]

What the heck is a courgette anyway? Looks like a cucumber to me .

EDIT: Apparently, courgette and zucchini are the same thing. Courgette is more common in the UK, and zucchini is preferred in the States.

[Queequeg]

"zucchini"

ever heard of it?

[Ibebucked]

It's a zucchini squash.

[Samilyn]

Love em when they're tiny and tender. Very tasty indeed.

 

However, when they're overgrown, they resemble a club with which a caveman could kill a mammoth. No wonder the bear got smart and split.

[MDR]

They can be a real hazard at this time of year. If you leave your car unlocked, even for a short time, you'll return to find it full of the things.

[gitnoob]

Where I'm from, we're way ahead of the curve. We have not only embraced the zucchini, we dress them up and race them.

[Tartanlad]

Garth They Need Their Guns To Play Cowboys and Indians

even at their tender age of 60yrs

[FretFiend.]

I remember a few years ago reading about a woman who beat her husband to death with a cooked cauliflower.

[Etienne Rambert]

I'm an American. If I fight a bear, I'l do it with a Zucchini Squash - dammit!

 

I don't need no European courgettes sashaying around, feminizing the home of the brave.

[EdBega]

Obviously the dogs saved her ...

[boxorox]

I prefer the aubergine. Their texture makes them a good substitute for meat in many dishes, and the surplus makes for great reactive targets with hollow points.