SC - Cucumbers and the SCA

[Decker, Terry D.]

What a fascinating non-fact.  Cucumber derives from the Middle English (1100
- - 1500) word "cucomer," derived from Old French derived from Latin.  Very
prescient of our ancestor to have a word for something they didn't know.

That should take care of the documentation and I think Rumpolt has a recipe
for cucumber salad, which should take care of the recipe.  Come to think of
it, I think cucumbers are mentioned in Pliny. 

Bear  

> I keep running up against the notion, among SCAdians, that 
> cucumbers are not period. This
> is quite definitely a SCAdian Urban Myth, because I've never 
> seen it in a print source.
> So, where is it coming from? If we can figure out where 'pink 
> isn't period' came from, we
> should be able to trace this myth too.
> 
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise