Watermelon > Zucchini > Cucumber.

[tp4tissue]

Zucchini remains top choice for savory though.

Can't quite work watermelon into most stirfries. Tastes weird,  unless you're among the few who enjoy salted watermelon.

/Thoughts?

[chyros]

Personally I think watermelon is heavily overrated and courgette is only okay for searing (then it's pretty good though).

Cucumber is vile. Not sure why so many people say it has little taste, I find the taste extremely dominating. Tastes like sour, rancid water; no positives about it at all.

[Findecanor]

Thinly sliced cucumber on cheese on buttered bread is nice.
Dill-pickled cucumber slices are nice in hamburgers, or with schnitzel.

Can't use zucchini or watermelon as substitute for either of those.

[fohat.digs]

In my summer garden I usually have a couple of zucchini and cucumber plants (vines, really) that produce a big haul for a couple of weeks - IF I can can keep various pests such as bugs (especially borers) away from them. I have NEVER succeeded in raising melons to maturity.

About the only thing to do with cucumbers is pickling them, but in recent years I have been slicing other vegetables thinly and dehydrating them with a light sprinkling of salt, which makes for good snacking.

[noisyturtle]

Nothing beats cucumber. Nothing.

[tp4tissue]

Tastes like sour, rancid water; no positives about it at all.

That is from unripe, early picked cuuqs, sprayed with dirty water and food wax to prevent evaporative shrinking. Very easy to grow your own, then you will see, it's gud'.

[noisyturtle]

Tastes like sour, rancid water; no positives about it at all.

That is from unripe, early picked cuuqs, sprayed with dirty water and food wax to prevent evaporative shrinking. Very easy to grow your own, then you will see, it's gud'.

You have to remember there are different cuke types. I will go to war for Trader Joe's, but they only carry disgusting bitter inedible English cukes.
The cukes that is great for snacking, flavoring, eating, and pickling are American cukes. Japanese cukes are also tasty, semi-sweet, not bitter, but harder to find than American or English.

Cucumbers have virtually no calories, full of healthy vitamins, you can eat a whole cuke dipped in hot sauce and it will fill you up for less than 30 calories. You simply cannot beat that for dieting.

[tp4tissue]

Whatever one's preference, it is very very important NOT to eat ANY food made/grown in Japan.

*Radia7i0n

[Findecanor]

Whatever one's preference, it is very very important NOT to eat ANY food made/grown in Japan.

*Radia7i0n

It is my mission in life whenever/ifever I can afford it to go to Japan and EAT ALL THE VEGETABLES,
especially "sansai" (wild foraged) and locally grown varieties in local restaurants.

I suspect that I would get more radiation from the plane ride alone. And I have got more radiation from all the CT and CT+PET scans I've done anyway.

[tp4tissue]

Whatever one's preference, it is very very important NOT to eat ANY food made/grown in Japan.

*Radia7i0n

It is my mission in life whenever/ifever I can afford it to go to Japan and EAT ALL THE VEGETABLES,
especially "sansai" (wild foraged) and locally grown varieties in local restaurants.

I suspect that I would get more radiation from the plane ride alone. And I have got more radiation from all the CT and CT+PET scans I've done anyway.

Tp4 recommend the Canor bring his own dehydrated vegetables from America, the Land of the free, Freedom Vegetables.

The way they measure radz, and quantify how much is good/bad for you is intentionally deceptive, and scientifically/Morally Bankrupt.

They classify it only for 1 case,  From the Outside, for a 160-175lb male.

When radz hit you from the outside, ala (plane ride) gamma, xray (dental),  it goes through clothing and skin.

Japan is heavily contaminated with free floating HOT PARTICLES, direct blown out dust from the reactor Core + other contaminated surrounding..

If you EAT or breath in that dust, it's shooting you with radz from the INSIDE, no skin and no clothing.

Under the microscope, it's pretty straightforward, where-ever these particles land, you begin to see cancerous lesions begin to form around them. We all have cancerous lesions, but the more you have of these, the higher the probability of hard cancers as time goes. This is why in Ukraine/Belarus, they have such high incidences of rare types of hard cancers post (hernob1e.


The knowledge of such things is intentionally missing from public discourse, because it is the core totem of our Toxic Emperium, The Industrial Military Complex. 

[tp4tissue]

U know, the pr0blem w' cucumber's unbeatable crunch, is the loudness cost of that epic snap. You can't hear the movie you're watching at all, when munching down on a gud' pickle based salad.