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Botancial recipe - Zucchini pickles

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I was getting ready to post "Yeah looks good but you should add turmeric." But they did.
Since the courgette (the English English name for zucchini) took off in popularity in the 1970s in the UK fewer people eat marrows. The marrow is like a courgette but 1-2 ft long and up to 6 in diameter. Usually stuffed and roasted, it takes a good cook to make it interesting.
The first link is what they should look like, the second is a monstrous abomination for a show.
http://nipitinthebud.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/monster-marrows/
http://www.knitnut.net/2009/07/zoom-and-the-really-big-zucchini/
"6 in" meaning 6 inches, not "6 of the previous measurement in"
Even more monstrous
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/gardening/article-1052744/Its-ill-wind--soggy-summer-produces-Britains-world-record-marrow.html
Let's see if this can be made easier.
what marrows should look like
monstrous abomination of a marrow
even more monstrous marrows
Having viewed the links, let me point out that the 2nd link shows an image of "giant Irish zucchini plant", but you don't fool a neotropical botanists that easy. The leaves belong to Gunnera. And last year at the pumpkin patch in Arthur IL a 901 lb pumpkin was on display. Those cucurbits can really make a big fruit. Now are those the biggest fruits of all? Have to explore this a bit. Any ideas?
I was wondering if you were going to spot that Gunnera. :) Almost as good a joke as the Notocactus woollii at Chelsea Physic Garden. Which is, if you look closely, knitted.
1725 lbs (782 kg) appears to be the current record for pumpkins. I certainly can't think of any bigger fruit in nature.
What neat links you do, I should join the 20th Century and work out how to do that.
Glad you reminded me of the Notocactus at Chelsea; a good joke.
Here's the html code:
text of the link
Oops! That was funny. OK I'll try again.
Enclose this phrase,A href="link address" in <>, , then type the text that will appear as the link, and close the code phrase with /A again in <>.
Hope that makes sense.
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