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On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:30:22 GMT,
(Phred) wrote:
> Being an officially multicultural land, we call them zucchini. Didn't
> see them around at all in my youth, but readily available these days.
> Probably a migrant thing -- though perhaps just "southern". (Here in
> the deep north we didn't do much other than spuds, pumpkin, and
> cabbage for cooking when I was a kid. Some carrots and green beans
> and, for the masochists, peas you had to shell yourself.)
Zucchini have been around for many, many years, if not in
grocery stores (can't tell you that... I lived in the woods
of Michigan with a picky eater for a mother - during the
time when people chose canned vegetables over fresh). What
I CAN tell you is my grandfather (picky eater mother's
father, btw) grew zucchini in his garden every summer from
as far back as I can remember - which is the '50s. So,
growing and eating zucchini were NOT cultural (grandpa was a
Scot/Canadian) unless it's the "-ini part, because he grew
the bigguns, not small ones.
I didn't know you could eat immature zucchini until I moved
to San Francisco in the '60s... we had a large Italian
community at the time, so I know THAT was cultural.
sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments
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