If you have to bang on the celery you're doing it wrong....
Meh - works better with a komkommer anyway.

and there's no strings.....

here's a fresh pickle recipe I came across that looks kinda good interesting; maybe it's up your alley. Don't know where you can get Chiangking black vinegar tho

http://sunflower-recipes.blogspot.co...er-pickle.html

I do not put pickles up my alley or indeed any in other orifice! How dare you?! :eek:

When i was a kid I used to wake up on Summer mornings with my eyes puffed and swollen shut. I used to lie down with a slice of cucumber over each eye and it would soothe and bring down the swelling really fast.

A cuke halfway up the left nostril would look odd...

Wow, it's like the cucumber is the 'duct tape' of vegetables.

I guess this was due to excema?

I'll admit (without wanting to rub it in) when I was a child I would bounce out of bed ready to face the world.

When I was a teen I got up at 06.30 on weekdays to avoid my bro eating his 2 hour breakfast; his chewing and slurping made me feel physically ill, but it was the only meal of the day he ate without a row so Mum indulged him.

On teen weekends I stayed in bed til 10.00, which was unprecedented in our house, but I had a waitressing job that finished at midnight. Then I bounced out of bed and ate free pizza for brekkers.

These days I need the komkommer.
But hey, Diz would only think it was a game and flick it off my face anyway.

But can you make a wallet from it?

i would guess hayfever. i used to find the cucumber soothing for my hayfever eyes too, but unfortunately the juice irritated my eczema. Still does. I love to eat cucumber, but I have to do it all in one go or the juice that leaks out as I bite irritates my lips (;))

Hmmm. Cut strips of the skin, dry, and weave the strips into a wallet.

Anyway, this thread has inspired me to try eating them again. I also picked up some intense balsamic vinegar at the Christmas Tree store that's something like %6 acidic.

Marinate the cuke slices in wine and vinegar. I'd like to try overnight but with that much acidity I wonder if I would have mush the next day.