Mystery of the killer cucumbers

[cailin maith]

I've never really been a fan of cucumber. Don't mind it in a salad but I wouldn't have it on a sandwich or anything.

Actually I've been thinking about this.... how did the eColi get in the cucumber? Or was it on the green bit?

Edit - Ah, I see it's already been discussed. I should have read the thread properly.... d'oh.

[xoggoth]

Illegal migrants in backs of lorries maybe?

[doodab]

Deathcumbers from outer space!

Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Churchill]

I'm sure I've seen that vid.

And some of the things German ladies get up to with cucumbers.

On a serious note, could this be a genetically engineered strain?

[xoggoth]

Or it could be all those pervy Bird's Eye polar bears fiddling about with the prawns and smoked salmon in women's fridges.

PS Which are most pervy, a Bird's Eye Polar Bear or those Jammy/Toffee Dodgers monkeys?

[Churchill]

Or it could be all those pervy Bird's Eye polar bears fiddling about with the prawns and smoked salmon in women's fridges.

Buenos noches Janice...

[TimberWolf]

The cucumbers were grown by spanish nuns.

I was wondering why they were squatting in the field.

[dang65]

Poor old Spain. They got the blame for Spanish Flu as well, which killed something like 20 million people at the end of WWI. The only reason it was called Spanish Flu was because Spain was neutral in WWI and reported the effects of the epidemic in their newspapers. Other countries kept it quiet because it could be bad propaganda. D'oh.

[d000hg]

If only we had known this 70 years ago we could have dropped cucumbers on the Nazis instead of very expensive bombs!!!

"Come friendly cucumbers..." doesn't have such a great ring to it.

[TimberWolf]

Bean sprouts are being fingered now. If it weren't for Chinese meals I might claim never to have never eaten them. Not that I've had a Chinese meal for years, and I've never bought bean sprouts. I can't even recollect having seen them being sold in the shops, though I don't dawdle as I glide past the vegetable section. No wonder kids havn't been affected. And do you eat them raw, rather than stir fried with rice, prawns and noodles?

BBC News - E. coli outbreak: German beansprouts 'probable' cause