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Make your summer salads simpler with a C-Thru cucumber

Four of a cucmber variety with very thin skins.
This isn't a vegetable you see every day, and, depending on how well it does in England, you may never get a chance to see it in person. Named the C-thru-cumber, it's a new variety of cucumber that has a very thin skin that doesn't need to be peeled before using it in a salad or sandwich. It's quite pricey compared to the regular cucumbers at grocery stores in the UK.

I am in no way, shape or form a fan of cucumbers, so the question of whether to peel or not to peel is a non-issue for me. I know that they peel the cucumbers for finger sandwiches where I work, but not for salads. Also, as I understand it the nutrients are mostly in the skin, so are these veggies less nutritious?

Judging from some of the comments in the Daily Mail Online article, the C-thru-cumber isn't going to go over well. What do you think?

Filed Under: Newspapers, Food News, Ingredients
Tags: british isles, C-thru-cumber, cucumbers, Daily Mail, DailyMail, skinless, UK, vegetables

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Erin

5-28-2008 @7:26PM Erin said... Oh man, I love cucumber - in salads, sandwiches, plain with a little bit of salt, anywhere! And I can't imagine eating one without skin, it's the best part. No expensive C-thru ewey pew cuke for me!
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Alex Falk

5-28-2008 @8:09PM Alex Falk said... Salt, vinegar and a touch of sugar, marinated overnight.

Cucumbers are delicious.

I have even used them, thinly sliced in stir fry and they just absolutely soak up the flavors! It's like the whole stir fry in a single slice!
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Miss Attitude

5-28-2008 @9:06PM Miss Attitude said... Oh, I love the sound of that! I love eating cucumbers, but hate peeling 'em!
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Jim

5-28-2008 @10:04PM Jim said... Long English cucumbers have, in my experience, never needed to be peeled and are priced similarly. So what's the point of an expensive no-peel cuke?
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Hamish

5-29-2008 @2:27AM Hamish said... This one's exclusive to Sainsbury's. I've tried it and it's really nice - crisper and slightly sweeter than standard cucumbers. In comes in packs of two for £1.19.
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fuchsoid

5-29-2008 @4:20AM fuchsoid said... I'll keep an eye out for these, but I doubt I'll buy one. I agree with what Samuel Johnson said about them - "a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."

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Alex

5-29-2008 @9:25AM Alex said... I think it looks gross. I once knew a guy who worked for a company that made fake skin for burn patients. He gave me a piece to play with. The outside of that cucumber reminds me of the "skin." No way, no how, would I eat those cukes.
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C Schoenbrun

5-29-2008 @11:17AM C Schoenbrun said... I've already been eating cucumbers like these for a while, first when visiting Israel and now from stores, at least in the Northeastern part of the U.S. I know them as "Persian cucumbers". They are smaller (and thinner) than those in the picture and BY ALL MEANS you eat them with the skin on. They are delicious, "sweet", very low water, and incredibly crunchy!
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