^ Ahem, that's not the way I look at a cucumber. Always thought of them of the "slower member" of the salad family.

Although there was a time when I was travelling around Vietnam as a geriatric backpacker, that I had thoughts about replacing the Dong with the cucumber as the national currency.

Seemed to be in abundance, every meal I ate in the 4 months I was there had loads of cucumber with it, whether you liked it or not. Currency value would be based on the size of the cucumber, obviously, and the freshness, which would promote spending as everyone would be trying to get rid of their money before it went bad on them.

Seemed like a good idea at the time, although I was running on cheap Viet beer and whiskey at the time.