SC - Cucumber jokes (again - but period this time)

[Elaine Koogler]

And, using yet another innocuous item...this time a piece of fruit...I once knew
a woman who refused to eat a banana by pulling the peel back and eating it by
hand.  She said that was indecent, so she peeled it, laid the "nekkid" banana on
her plate and ate it with a knife and fork.  Her daughter belonged to our barony
for a while, and it took us about 3 years to get her to come out of her
shell...wonder why???????

Kiri

PS:  Obligatory food content:  There are several Japanese recipes for cucumbers
pickled in a solution of vingar, water, salt and pepper...add a dash of sugar
(which they cover by using mirin, a sweetish rice wine vinegar), and you have
the way my mom (and I) usually serve cukes!  So far as the bananas are
concerned, try dipping them in Nutella!!

Lee-Gwen wrote:

> I thought that, given the recent fascination with cucumbers on this List,
> this excerpt from a posting on another list to which I subscribe might
> appeal.
>
> 'And as documentation for the periodness of cucumber jokes, there
> is a quote from Ottaviano Boy, a Venetian envoy to the Ottoman
> court in Constantinople during the mid-16th century, who writes
> that for the women of harem of Suleiman the Magnificent, "it is
> not lawfull for any one to bring ought in unto them, with which
> they may commit deeds of beastly uncleannesse; so that if they
> have a will to eate Cucumbers, they are sent in unto them sliced
> to deprive them of the meanes of playing the wantons".'
>
> Fancy slicing them and taking away all that harmless (or beastly, depending
> on one's point of view, I guess) fun!
>
> Gwynydd
>
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