Talk:Zucchini

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so now, what is it called in Canada, Singapore, and other English speaking places?

I live in Canada and we call them Zucchinis, but where I live (in Rural South western ontario) they aren't very popular and a lot of people I know probably dont have a clue as to what a zucchini is in the first place.70.49.42.37 4 July 2005 15:02 (UTC)

// I didn't know the things in the north uk as a child, though now they're common. I believe "courgette" is a used a fair bit more more than "zucchini", though the latter word will be well know by the food-snob middle-classes (I don't know what people who haven't a clue would call them).

Maybe, if by "food snob" you mean "North American" :). (Around here they're just called "zukes", rhymes with the "cukes" in the photo.) SB Johnny 00:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Boooooo! This article should definitely be under "courgette" rather than zucchini, since everyone knows this is its true name. (Although I must admit zucchini is a pretty cool word, but then so is courgette so Shut up, noisy man!)

1 Vegetable or fruit?
2 Images
3 New Photo
4 It may be a fruit
5 intro

[edit] Vegetable or fruit?

The article states both:

"Zucchini (US and Australian English) or courgette (New Zealand and British English) is a vegetable" and;
"the flower (known as Flor de Calabaza) is preffered over the fruit"

Is the courgette/zucchini (as in the part normally eaten) a fruit or a vegetable, or am I misunderstanding what the article is saying? Leithp 14:57, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Nothing wrong with that. See vegetable -- vegetables can be any part of a plant, including the fruit. --Russell E 13:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

About 3/4 of the green zucchini-like things in the image are actually cucumbers... perhaps it would be worth a new photo. --Russell E 13:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Misleading photo, true.

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I agree, the market photo is definetely misleading and should be replaced.

Can we get information on how physically big it is?

I've never seen one of these fruit in my supermarket in the UK and I can't tell how big (or small) it is.

--Quatermass 10:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Photo

As chance would have it, I've had to buy 2 Zucchinis or Courgettes as we call them in the UK. So I've uploaded a picture of them before I got stuck into them.

Enjoy.

--Quatermass 21:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It may be a fruit

We all know that tomato is a fruit for a long time, but that's because there are seeds within a tomato. So does zucchini and other squashes. I'm not spamming or anything, but apples and any so-called "vegetable" (like tomato) with seed(s) inside are fruits. How can we find sources of it? —Gh87 02:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] intro

It seems to me that the intro section of the article (the bit before the Table of Contents) is awfully long. Could any of it be moved to the body of the article (the bit after the Table of Contents)? 64.216.106.158 14:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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