# Identity of food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 28, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492 "2013-10-28T21:50:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/1 "2013-10-28T21:50:31Z")

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I know one is cucumber. What’s the look alike?

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**Author:** ![Reverend\_Meade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Reverend\_Meade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverend_Meade)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/2 "2013-10-28T21:54:11Z")

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I have no clue, but it might help others if you tell us what dish it was in.

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**Author:** ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/3 "2013-10-28T21:55:25Z")

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I’m thinking it’s a kind of squash and it was something I got in a self serve salad bar.

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**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/4 "2013-10-28T21:57:12Z")

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Looks like zucchini.

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**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/5 "2013-10-28T22:49:26Z")

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Agreed. Zucchini, aka courgette if your dialect is closer to British English than American English.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/6 "2013-10-29T00:51:00Z")

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Hm, cucumber, zucchini, soybean, kernal of american corn, ceci bean/garbonzo bean and spinach, looks like to me.

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/7 "2013-10-29T01:00:18Z")

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Yup. Zucchini.

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**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/8 "2013-10-29T09:06:36Z")

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Thirded, fourthed, fifthed or whatever. Courgette / zucchini it is.

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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-of-food/672492/9 "2013-10-29T09:27:15Z")

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There are green skinned radishes,  
gourds like new guinea bean  
or good ol’ fashioned zucchini