A supermarket cucumber compared to one from my garden

by Rufus_T_Stone

44 comments
  1. The one on the right looks like it’s about to jump out of a transit van and commit an armed robbery in the 1970’s.

  2. A colleague of mine has been growing garlic and has been hooking me up.

    Mate, this garlic is insane, the flavour is out of this world, what would take 4 supermarket cloves only takes one little one and it just tastes so much better. I’m running out and I’m honestly so sad I’ll have to go back to crappy tesco garlic.

  3. Tbh, they range massively wherever you go.

    Asda ones are absolutely pathetic but the Aldi ones are humongous.

  4. How’s the taste, though? Let them grow too big and it’s cardboard

  5. Yours would have been the same if you’d picked it three days earlier.

    And yours has cracks which suggests overwatering.

    I appreciate the point you were trying to make but this isn’t one of the correct comparisons!

  6. I mean, there are various sizes available in the supermarket crates.

  7. Usually the smaller ones are the ones that actually taste of anything though. Letting them get big means leathery skin and watery insides.

  8. We ignoring that one of them appears to have a condom on it?

  9. Is the skin on the home-grown one really tough? I used to have a greenhouse and would grow cucumbers but never managed to grow ones without really thick skins.

  10. In all fairness there are so many different varieties, plus the earlier you pick them the less tough they are. I’ve grown mini ones this year and I still pick them just before they look ready because they’re extra tender!

  11. I think you are being disingenuous. Chances are that tastes quite bitter and is quite tough.

  12. Large cucumbers are not necessarily, and are generally not, better.

  13. Disturbing there’s a condom on one of them, but OK. You do you…

  14. Not to piss on your parade, but the thinner the cucumber, the better it tastes.

  15. Nono honey, the big ones lack flavour, they’re not even enjoyable.

  16. I don’t understand why their veg is so tiny though? Like I buy suede and they’re the size of tennis balls compared to ones in ALDI, I dont get it….

  17. Your hone grown one will be much more nutritional because you haven’t used pesticides too

  18. Title doesn’t make it clear which is which, I would have assumed the right was your one, if it wasn’t for the plastic.

  19. That’s what you get for putting condoms on your cucumbers

  20. Well it’s nice to see the supermarket one is practicing safe sex, at least.

  21. Have you seen the size of bloody supermarket cabbages and cauliflowers recently? An outrage!!

  22. How do you get the cling film to grow with the cucumber?

  23. And the bastards charge per cumber, not per kilo.

  24. That’s an unusually seed-light cucumber you’ve grown! When I tried it often had way too many seeds versus supermarket ones.

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