Getting one's "armadillo" through a metal detector

So, was Derek Smalls’ “armadillo” a foil wrapped cucumber or zucchini?

Link, please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAargSCXQaQ

The latter.

Funny.

It’s a big cuke.

41 years on, and I have to ask:

why DID he wrap it in foil? Did he want to get caught, for the lulz?

To keep it, well, fresh.

“What is this, a game show?”

Zucchini is usually sold with a large stem at one end that is cut off flat. The video quality of the clip is not great but as far as I can tell, both ends of Smalls’ vegetable are rounded, so I think it’s a cucumber.