Commonly grown, ho-hum, probably a hybrid. The cucumber we’re all used to in our salads is a ‘garden-variety’ cucumber. Ten years ago, oblivious and still eating boxed macaroni and cheese, I didn’t even realize that pickles were cucumbers. Until I ate my mother-in-law's Bread and Butter pickles, so good we make her ship them to the West Coast from Michigan, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a pickling cucumber. Evil cucumber? A smaller version of the cuke I eat in my salad? Or is it an entirely different cucumber all together? Is a pickling cucumber the Mini-Me to the larger Dr. When I noticed this year’s crop of pickling cucumbers at the farmers’ market, Mini-Me popped back in my head (unfortunately). And that's just one questionable character. Evil, probably not beloved by little people and therefore low on the ‘PC’ scale. Anyway, Mini-Me is a miniature version of Austin Powers’ nemesis, Dr. In the affirmative, tablemate number two responded with two words. “Do you think Mike Myers’ Austin Powers movies are more politically correct than Tyler Perry’s Madea movies?” she resolved, with martini in-hand. Primary-image, l Out for drinks one night, my tablemate threw down the gauntlet. Top | - A Vegetable Ignoramus Expands Her Repertoire "Mini-Me" Cucumbers
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