If you rub your cucumber.......

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dinosnopro
dinosnopro Posts: 2,179 Member
....after you cut the end off, does it make it less bitter? My grandma always told me to do this, any truth to it? I know that the more water they get while growing makes them less bitter to begin with. Was my grandma full of it?
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  • Ketomaniac9
    Ketomaniac9 Posts: 108 Member
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    LOL @ thread title
  • jesterx888
    jesterx888 Posts: 181
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    I really thought this thread was going a different route.........
  • pullipgirl
    pullipgirl Posts: 767 Member
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    pesticides have a bitter taste I guess it wipes some of it off?
  • arnoswife
    arnoswife Posts: 228 Member
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    I really thought this thread was going a different route.........

    my thoughts too, very disappointed......................................:ohwell: :cry:
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
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    BHAHAH.

    It doesn't actually do anything if you've washed the cucumber.
  • JanetLM73
    JanetLM73 Posts: 1,277 Member
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    I love cucumbers. I've never rubbed it though.
  • dollipop
    dollipop Posts: 379 Member
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    Have you seen what happens if you shake a sea cucumber though? :laugh:
  • Farfourah
    Farfourah Posts: 899 Member
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    It becomes flaccid, I think.
  • AimeeLynn90
    AimeeLynn90 Posts: 94
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    LOL @ thread title


    My thoughts exactly.
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,179 Member
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
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    I LOLed at the title to. No, I have never heard this, then again I have never found cucumbers to be particularly bitter anyway.
  • spynoodle
    spynoodle Posts: 404
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?

    I was taught to rub the cucumber too!:blushing:
  • 12by311
    12by311 Posts: 1,716 Member
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?

    It's true. You slice the ends off and rub them (just on each end) before peeling or slicing the rest of it.
  • spynoodle
    spynoodle Posts: 404
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    It becomes flaccid, I think.

    Then you're not doing it right!
  • DaSavedSinner
    DaSavedSinner Posts: 211 Member
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?

    I was taught to rub the cucumber too!:blushing:

    :noway: :noway: :noway:
  • DarwinChick95
    DarwinChick95 Posts: 144 Member
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    hahaha i thought this was going to be something else hahahahahahahahaha
  • carolemack
    carolemack Posts: 1,276 Member
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?


    You are not the only one...my ex-husband would not eat a cucumber unless you cut off one end and rubbed it against the remaining cucumber...but then he was mighty strange to begin with! :laugh: Now me, I have never eaten a cucumber so I can not verify the truth of his belief.
  • bikinibeliever
    bikinibeliever Posts: 832 Member
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?



    I always heard people saying don't rub your cucumber because it can cause blind...... oh wait, never mind. Ummm cucumber, nope, can't bring anything up from memory on that one. :laugh:
  • dollipop
    dollipop Posts: 379 Member
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    I am laughing at the response ratio, you women must love a good cucumber thread. But am I the only one that was told this?
    I have seriously never heard of this.
  • jesska812
    jesska812 Posts: 102 Member
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    Haha I couldn't go past a good cucumber thread!!

    I was actually told this by my grandmother but I've never tried it.