Squash vs squash & Courgette vs Marrow

JAS_OH1 said:
I'm not understanding the squash correlation?
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"Squash" in the UK is a drink, usually made from oranges. Could be an orange syrup, which you pour into a glass then add water, or a bottle ready prepared.
As a kid, I never had fresh orange juice; it was always orange squash.
I'm amazed that it's still produced, but it is:
Orange squash
I distinctly recall a friend from uni going to the US on holiday and asking for squash and biscuits ( UK translation: orange drink and cookies) and wondering what the heck had happened when he got pumpkin and scones.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Orange squash as I think you may have already worked out, it's a type of flavoured, coloured sugar in liquid form filled with preservatives and E numbers, fed to kids to make them hyperactive...
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That explains it all. I was brought up on it.
 
karadekoolaid said:
I distinctly recall a friend from uni going to the US on holiday and asking for squash and biscuits ( UK translation: orange drink and cookies) and wondering what the heck had happened when he got pumpkin and scones.
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Wwll that's odd in that no one here calls a pumpkin a squash. If you were to ask for squash you'd likely get yellow summer squash.
 
karadekoolaid said:
That was way back in the 70s. My buddy had probably never seen anything like a summer squash, so whatever he was given, he identified as "pumpkin" !
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Yep, I do remember a couple of the locals using “pumpkin” as a generic term for squash, and that was the ‘90’s. Used to throw me during the potlucks. :laugh:
 
karadekoolaid said:
That was way back in the 70s. My buddy had probably never seen anything like a summer squash, so whatever he was given, he identified as "pumpkin" !
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They didn't have courgettes in the UK in the 70s?
TastyReuben said:
Yep, I do remember a couple of the locals using “pumpkin” as a generic term for squash, and that was the ‘90’s. Used to throw me during the potlucks. :laugh:
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I always heard the term "gourds" growing up.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Okay, in my world marrow is inside of bones. Could you please not make me giggle it?
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It’s a type of great big courgette (zucchini) that IMO does not benefit from being grown to the size they’re grown to.

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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
It’s a type of great big courgette (zucchini) that IMO does not benefit from being grown to the size they’re grown to.

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Oh yes indeed. The seeds are horrible and they're very woody. People here make a sweet bread loaf out of them with cinnamon and brown sugar. I'm not a fan of zucchini bread.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Probably, but most people thought "vegetables"were potatoes, parsnips, swede, marrow, carrots, green beans and those lovely foreign things, peppers. :laugh: :laugh:
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Don’t forget good ol’ cabbage and cauliflower.
Although I’m pleased to see peas are missing from the list 😂

Edit: Oh and turnip, Baldricks favourite!
 
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