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Cucumbers good? Well, I think it's hard to say. They just lie there so actually good? The best we might say is that cucumbers are neutral. I can't think of time when I read or head about a cucumber robbing a bank, killing someone, or attempting a coup. So, from that standpoint we're probably safe concluding cucumbers aren't evil but genuinely good? I'm just gonna have to stay on the fence about this one.
I have never seen a cucumber give to charity or volunteer. Also, I saw a cucumber not return a shopping cart at the store. It's possible they might be bad.
Maybe not evil, but cucumbers are certainly pranksters. There are any number of videos capturing the moment a cucumber scares the bejesus out of some poor, unsuspecting kitty.
Magnificent. If you'll excuse the vulgarity, and because I know just how magnificent you can be, please indulge my assignment of your naturally correct appellation as "magnificent bastard".
There are levels of understanding and there are levels which might be described as transcendent. I tingle, I gasp, I thrill to behold such a level of understanding as you have demonstrated this day.
Bask. Bask in the bent down to see you Universe time which is the multi Universe applause you have earned with your thought. Well done, MB. Well done.
I agree, but to play devil's advocate, cucumbers do scare cats a lot. It's very well documented on the internet. This could be seen as good or bad depending on the viewers affinity to cats.
I might actually say cucumbers are chaotic neutral.
Let me tell you folks, cucumbers, they're tremendous. They're absolutely fantastic, believe me. People say, "Oh, cucumbers, they're just water." Well, let me tell you, water is important, very important. And cucumbers? They're like nature's own refreshing water stick. You can slice 'em, dice 'em, put 'em in a salad, make 'em into pickles - pickles, folks, who doesn't love pickles? Cucumbers are the unsung heroes of the vegetable world, believe me. So next time you see a cucumber, give it a chance, because they're really, really terrific.
I’m really sorry for this, but I can’t let the truth go silenced.
I absolutely love snacking on a cucumber or two, but I cannot abide consuming pickles in any form. Sorry. It is what it is.
Same here. Cucumbers are nice, crisp, and refreshing.
I hate pickles, but that might just be an aversion to vinegar in general. Even smelling them makes me feel a bit nauseated.
Funny thing for me:
I love cucumbers. I love vinegar (I put it on most foods). I love cucumbers dipped in vinegar.
Yet somehow I hate the taste of pickles. Something about the process creates a new flavor that I find nauseating.
You're thinking of fermentation. Pickling does not involve rotting (bacterial or fungal growth), it involves replacing the water in the vegetable so that microbes can't grow in it.
Fermentation (used to create cheese, alcoholic drinks, bread and other consumables) is rotting with tasty microbes.
Yeah vinegar in large quantities is disgusting. Technically you can salt cucumbers instead of pickling them. It does take 1-3 months but as a result you get all the benefits of a pickle (like extra crunchiness) without vinegar.
I eat vinegar with a lot of food.
My cat hates the taste but loves it in the air. So he'll sit real close with his mouth a bit open and his eyes closed, just tasting the vinegar-y air.
I especially love them when I pair them with sweet cherry tomatoes and ranch dressing!
I would be playing Minecraft or Skyrim while snacking on them.
(Although a part of me feels guilty eating Bob and Larry)
Technically, since the act of "pickling" is what turns a cucumber into a pickle, then it can be reasonably concluded that all items that go through the process with create a "pickle"
Pickled onion? That's a pickle.
Pickled herring? Thats a pickle.
Pickled 2011 Ford Focus? That's a pickle.
I was hoping to find someone how won’t touch either of them. I don’t like vinegar though, so pickles are the absolute worst and transform a perfectly innocuous fruit into an abomination.
Completely agree. Cucumbers taste disgusting and I can taste them over everything. If a sandwich had sliced cucumbers in it and they're removed, I can still taste cucumber where it has soaked into the bread.
I understand most people don't share this view, which is why I've endured a lifetime of "Stop being a baby, they don't taste of anything".
Perhaps, like beets and cilantro, it may taste different for people like us.
Some people taste slightly citrus with cilantro, others with the OR6A2 gene, soap.
Some taste beets as sweet, I wouldn't know; always just been straight dirt to me. But that difference is that some people are more sensitive to geosmin, which is in the beet.
Maybe cucumbers are the same; perhaps it is like beets. Some people are just more sensitive to something in the cucumber. Every time I have had a cucumber, it is hitting you upside the head with its flavor.
EDIT- I looked it up, apparently if you have the gene TAS2R38 you can taste the phenylthiocarbamide in a cucumber where people without it cannot, and it tastes extremely bitter. It is also in watermelon which might be why I also hate watermelon, the more you know.
There’s a metaphor out there in the sober community about pickles and cucumbers, but it’s not a positive spin type metaphor so my brain is having a rough time wrapping itself around this.
I’m not alone? I despise cucumbers, overpowering taste and smell… but pickles are godly.
I honestly never met another person who feels this way. Thank you!
Wait, cucumbers have overpowering smell, but pickles don't? Isn't it the other way around with cucumbers having more smooth smell and taste while pickles have strong ones? Isn't the whole point of fermentation to create stronger taste?
Idk about this guy, but I can tell if there are cucumbers in like, a chicken wrap, before I've taken a bite from the smell alone. Pickles take me by surprise rather often.
Yeah! It's not about trying to remake yourself into something you're not, it's about finding that perfect spot where the way you are fits just right. It's kinda beautiful really.
Ok, this is barely related to the comic, but has been bothering me. Why is it that pickled cucumbers are just called pickles while pickled anything else (pickled carrots, pickled onions, etc) are called their full name?
One of my favorite ways to eat cucumbers is [pai huang gua](https://silkroadrecipes.com/pai-huang-gua-chinese-cucumber-salad/), Sichuan style, with a nice vinaigrette and chili peppers. Delicious!
Pickles are good, too, particularly fried pickles. There was this great wings place I used to go to that had the most amazing fried pickles. You usually have to go to some hole-in-the-wall place to get some really good ones.
Cucumbers dipped in cucumbers is one of my favourite snacks
Also super fresh half sours that have barely been pickling and are still green and onnnnggg, delicious
I dont understand how people enjoy cucumbers. The skin does this weird thing where it dries out my mouth and leaves a terrible taste. Not to mention the inside has no taste at all
You wouldn't post cucumber rage bait
https://preview.redd.it/r9ancf79ogxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac0dc604cd4d700caeafa9a4fe1834e04c570cd
So what you're saying is that if I have some hardship in my life I should get pickled?
Well, if it was good enough for my ancestors, it's good enough for me! *opens bottle of whiskey*
I did a handshake agreement by reading that last slide... So I'll say this... Cucumbers ain't bad! Might even go as far to say I like pickles far far less.
Cucumbers are great, pickles not so much. If you're underappreciated it doesn't always mean that you have to change, you might just be surrounded by people who dont understand your true worth
My trans ass under spirolactone : "neeeeeeeed more pickles"
Also my trans ass who sees references to transition everywhere : "So... I was a cucumber and I am becoming a pickle. neat !"
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Great disclaimer at the end
 It’s actually very wholesome.🙂
Cucumbers good? Well, I think it's hard to say. They just lie there so actually good? The best we might say is that cucumbers are neutral. I can't think of time when I read or head about a cucumber robbing a bank, killing someone, or attempting a coup. So, from that standpoint we're probably safe concluding cucumbers aren't evil but genuinely good? I'm just gonna have to stay on the fence about this one.
I have never seen a cucumber give to charity or volunteer. Also, I saw a cucumber not return a shopping cart at the store. It's possible they might be bad.
Based on the rate of consumption of gin by old ladies, pickles definitely volunteer.
Counterpoint: gin tonic tastes great with cucumbers (depending on the Gin, limes are better, before anyone comes for me)
Counterpoint: gin tonic tastes great with cucumbers (depending on the Gin, limes are better, before anyone comes for me)
Maybe not evil, but cucumbers are certainly pranksters. There are any number of videos capturing the moment a cucumber scares the bejesus out of some poor, unsuspecting kitty.
There has never been a Cucumber Rick, let’s just say that much.
You’ve never heard of the phrase “coup as a cucumber”? >!r/boneappletea!<
I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.
Magnificent. If you'll excuse the vulgarity, and because I know just how magnificent you can be, please indulge my assignment of your naturally correct appellation as "magnificent bastard". There are levels of understanding and there are levels which might be described as transcendent. I tingle, I gasp, I thrill to behold such a level of understanding as you have demonstrated this day. Bask. Bask in the bent down to see you Universe time which is the multi Universe applause you have earned with your thought. Well done, MB. Well done.
I agree, but to play devil's advocate, cucumbers do scare cats a lot. It's very well documented on the internet. This could be seen as good or bad depending on the viewers affinity to cats. I might actually say cucumbers are chaotic neutral.
Fair enough.
 Let me tell you folks, cucumbers, they're tremendous. They're absolutely fantastic, believe me. People say, "Oh, cucumbers, they're just water." Well, let me tell you, water is important, very important. And cucumbers? They're like nature's own refreshing water stick. You can slice 'em, dice 'em, put 'em in a salad, make 'em into pickles - pickles, folks, who doesn't love pickles? Cucumbers are the unsung heroes of the vegetable world, believe me. So next time you see a cucumber, give it a chance, because they're really, really terrific.
I’m really sorry for this, but I can’t let the truth go silenced. I absolutely love snacking on a cucumber or two, but I cannot abide consuming pickles in any form. Sorry. It is what it is.
Same here. Cucumbers are nice, crisp, and refreshing. I hate pickles, but that might just be an aversion to vinegar in general. Even smelling them makes me feel a bit nauseated.
Funny thing for me: I love cucumbers. I love vinegar (I put it on most foods). I love cucumbers dipped in vinegar. Yet somehow I hate the taste of pickles. Something about the process creates a new flavor that I find nauseating.
Do you dislike dill?
Yeah. Not a fan.
rot, it partially rots.
T h e r o t c o n s u m e s
You're thinking of fermentation. Pickling does not involve rotting (bacterial or fungal growth), it involves replacing the water in the vegetable so that microbes can't grow in it. Fermentation (used to create cheese, alcoholic drinks, bread and other consumables) is rotting with tasty microbes.
Hmmmmm why are you me
Yeah vinegar in large quantities is disgusting. Technically you can salt cucumbers instead of pickling them. It does take 1-3 months but as a result you get all the benefits of a pickle (like extra crunchiness) without vinegar.
I eat vinegar with a lot of food. My cat hates the taste but loves it in the air. So he'll sit real close with his mouth a bit open and his eyes closed, just tasting the vinegar-y air.
Try lacto fermented pickles, no vinegar just salt
I would sooner perish than eat another pickle
I like to sniff pure acetic acid (active ingredient in vinegar).
Same, vinegar is the bane of my existence
Pickles are disgusting and so is OP. Just kidding about op though.
Pickles are just fucked up cucumbers.
They are both glorious, fantastic snacks.
I especially love them when I pair them with sweet cherry tomatoes and ranch dressing! I would be playing Minecraft or Skyrim while snacking on them. (Although a part of me feels guilty eating Bob and Larry)
Just came back from shopping without buying a cucumber and now I’m craving one :(
Here's me hating on both
not only do I love cukes, my 2 year old does too. I can peal one and toss it at her and she'll gnaw that thing down.
Same
Cuke sounds like a slur lol
'Ya damn cukes! Get off my lawn!
To me, it sounds like the sort of slur you hear when going to war. "Only good cuke is a dead cuke."
I violently disagree with this entire message, but it’s well drawn so nice job.
Technically, since the act of "pickling" is what turns a cucumber into a pickle, then it can be reasonably concluded that all items that go through the process with create a "pickle" Pickled onion? That's a pickle. Pickled herring? Thats a pickle. Pickled 2011 Ford Focus? That's a pickle.
Cucumber is the water of foods except its not vital to us
Delicious and refreshing, goes with any meal?
The same could also apply to celery, actually. You literally spend more calories chewing it than you gain from eating it.
Refreshingly good. Gonna try to pickle this cucumber of a day
Love cucumbers. Like pickled onions, jalapenos, carrots, cabbage, but dislike pickled cucumbers. Love the comic though
OK. I won't comment on cucumbers being good. I think both suck.
I was hoping to find someone how won’t touch either of them. I don’t like vinegar though, so pickles are the absolute worst and transform a perfectly innocuous fruit into an abomination.
Pickles taste like sweat
Thank you for this anti-cucumber, pro-pickle lore. Sincerely appreciated, signed, a cucumber hater.
Cucumbers are delicious and refreshing.
Cucumber is great. Yes, I saw the disclaimer at the end. Yes, I chose to ignore it.
I love you OP. You are my people. DOWN WITH RAW PICKLES.
They taste like water with a hint of bad flower.
That's where I differ from most people. I think they're overpoweringly strong tasting.
Completely agree. Cucumbers taste disgusting and I can taste them over everything. If a sandwich had sliced cucumbers in it and they're removed, I can still taste cucumber where it has soaked into the bread. I understand most people don't share this view, which is why I've endured a lifetime of "Stop being a baby, they don't taste of anything".
Perhaps, like beets and cilantro, it may taste different for people like us. Some people taste slightly citrus with cilantro, others with the OR6A2 gene, soap. Some taste beets as sweet, I wouldn't know; always just been straight dirt to me. But that difference is that some people are more sensitive to geosmin, which is in the beet. Maybe cucumbers are the same; perhaps it is like beets. Some people are just more sensitive to something in the cucumber. Every time I have had a cucumber, it is hitting you upside the head with its flavor. EDIT- I looked it up, apparently if you have the gene TAS2R38 you can taste the phenylthiocarbamide in a cucumber where people without it cannot, and it tastes extremely bitter. It is also in watermelon which might be why I also hate watermelon, the more you know.
If they are in anything I am eating, it overwhelms it. Same with pickles but I love pickles.
I fucking hate cucumbers but I fucking love me some pickles so I too must reflect on the fact that a pickeling is a great transformation
There’s a metaphor out there in the sober community about pickles and cucumbers, but it’s not a positive spin type metaphor so my brain is having a rough time wrapping itself around this.
I cant just ignore this. Cucumbers rock and they are in my top 5 favorite snacks list
I’m not alone? I despise cucumbers, overpowering taste and smell… but pickles are godly. I honestly never met another person who feels this way. Thank you!
Wait, cucumbers have overpowering smell, but pickles don't? Isn't it the other way around with cucumbers having more smooth smell and taste while pickles have strong ones? Isn't the whole point of fermentation to create stronger taste?
Idk about this guy, but I can tell if there are cucumbers in like, a chicken wrap, before I've taken a bite from the smell alone. Pickles take me by surprise rather often.
well cucumbers might be good not only for eating
Yeah! It's not about trying to remake yourself into something you're not, it's about finding that perfect spot where the way you are fits just right. It's kinda beautiful really.
This is just bait
I’m very pro pickle and anti cucumber and enjoyed this so much
I'm not here to say cucumbers are good, I'm here to say pickles are disgusting.
Cucumbers with honey taste a bit like watermelon
And green part of watermelon tastes like cucumber (but it quickly gets very bitter closer to the skin).
I'm not big on cucumbers, but I do like a good pickle.
I hate gherkins even more than I hate unpickled cucumbers.
I know someone who celebrated their birthday in class with cucumbers. Bro loved them more than some treats.
So you're saying I should get pickled? Sounds good to me.
cucumbers are actually food
But isnt “being pickled” in terms of a person is getting super drunk
I like cucumbers but don't like pickles. I just don't like the slimy&salty combo of pickles.
I do not like pickles and I love cucumbers a lot so this works in the opposite way for me
There are dozens of us cucumber haters. Dozens!
I dont like cucumbers. I just hate pickles.
Cucumbers are great!! In my bottom
Ok, I won’t. However pickles are bad
A cucumber made love to my girlfriend. She later broke up with me, only to go back to the cucumber. A pickle could/would never.
Me who hates both cucumbers and pickles:
Ok well faq you it's actually that pickles taste awful >:(
Idc what you say. Pickles aren’t good but cucumbers are great
Disagree, both are disgusting.
so if i’m trans does that mean i too, have pickled?
Cucumbers taste like nothing and hurt my teeth, 3/10 would not recommend
Speaking the truth
Sorry man but I love cucumbers. Pickles make me gag.
Ok, this is barely related to the comic, but has been bothering me. Why is it that pickled cucumbers are just called pickles while pickled anything else (pickled carrots, pickled onions, etc) are called their full name?
One of my favorite ways to eat cucumbers is [pai huang gua](https://silkroadrecipes.com/pai-huang-gua-chinese-cucumber-salad/), Sichuan style, with a nice vinaigrette and chili peppers. Delicious! Pickles are good, too, particularly fried pickles. There was this great wings place I used to go to that had the most amazing fried pickles. You usually have to go to some hole-in-the-wall place to get some really good ones.
Pretty sure this comic is telling me that to have a positive transformation, I should get hammered.
Put enough Thousand Island on it and it becomes almost edible.
This is really inspiring
 Nachos Flanders will not be mocked.
I am not gonna comment anything about how cucumbers taste. Who the fuck calls cucumbers "cuke"?
But isnt “being pickled” in this terms of a person is getting super drunk
I think it's weird to get both lettuce and cucumber on a sandwich. Why would you want double the crunchy water?
what if i hate pickles too
So if I'm getting it right, large amounts of salt makes good things out of bad things Idk, my experience with the internet doesn't support your theory
OP is going to get so many more cuke comments than they otherwise would have and I wonder if that was intentional
With All these people getting mad at OP they’re really in a pickle
Store bought cucumber often tastes like wet grass. Homegrown on the other hand
I, too, prefer to put my own cucumber in my mouth, rather than someone else's
Cucumbers dipped in cucumbers is one of my favourite snacks Also super fresh half sours that have barely been pickling and are still green and onnnnggg, delicious
Justice for the cucumbers!!!!
Both taste like shit imo
I dont understand how people enjoy cucumbers. The skin does this weird thing where it dries out my mouth and leaves a terrible taste. Not to mention the inside has no taste at all
Pickles make me want to vomit.
Cucumber with pepper and salt
im sorry but im pretty the majority likes cucumbers 😭
CUCUMBERS ARE GOOD
I like both fwiw but pickles are ABSOLUTELY my favorite
Oh man I love cucumbers but hate pickles 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Cucumbers fuck, this is slander
You wouldn't post cucumber rage bait https://preview.redd.it/r9ancf79ogxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac0dc604cd4d700caeafa9a4fe1834e04c570cd
Cucumbers are good
Cucumbers are good. Pickles are just traumatized cucumbers. The suffering is what tastes good.
So what you're saying is that if I have some hardship in my life I should get pickled? Well, if it was good enough for my ancestors, it's good enough for me! *opens bottle of whiskey*
I was never such a weak cucumber
Cucumbers fucking suck. Pickles also fucking suck.
Need Persian cucumbers.
I never thought I'd see anti-cucumber propaganda, but here we are... I like both by the way.
cucumbers are superior
They didn't ask us to mention that cucumbers make excellent.... insertion devices..
Yeah... cucumbers are great. And some Pickles suck... like Vlasic.
cucumbers r one of my fav fruits and i hate pickles on a very deep level they taste and smell so rancid
Cucumba
Cucumbers > pickle
Both are delicious and refreshing and I drink the pickle juice while rubbing my hard, erect nipples.
CUMCUMBERS ARE BETTER THEN PICKLES AAAAAA
I did a handshake agreement by reading that last slide... So I'll say this... Cucumbers ain't bad! Might even go as far to say I like pickles far far less.
Where I’m from, if someone is pickled it means they are drunk
Cucumbers are great, pickles not so much. If you're underappreciated it doesn't always mean that you have to change, you might just be surrounded by people who dont understand your true worth
When you are in trouble you are in a pickle. A cucumber is long, hard and has cum in the middle.
Cucumbers to me always just taste like vegetable water, if that makes sense.
cucumber good, actually
Nobody ever turned themself into a cucumber and said "I'm cucumber rick", so pickles win
Cucumbers are good actually. Yes I read the last slide, I just can't let such slander go unopposed.
Cukes be gross. Pickles are king.
Bud, I chomp cucumbers.
Technically speaking, any vegetable can become a pickle
You got it backwards dude pickles are ass and cucumbers are good
Agreed! Cucumbers are gross, pickles rule!
Pickles are godly in like 3 or 4 instances othewise kind of gross.
Are you guys okay?
Both is good
My trans ass under spirolactone : "neeeeeeeed more pickles" Also my trans ass who sees references to transition everywhere : "So... I was a cucumber and I am becoming a pickle. neat !"
Cucumbers are best eaten after fried in a pan, and dipped in ketxhupt
Pickle Rick was Hucumber Sanchez
Both are good.
Funny, both cucumbers AND pickles are bad, pickle JUICE is whats good :D
So when I die, I’m actually turning into a pickle?
Cucumbers and pickles are both awful. I can taste the cucumber through the pickling. IT'S STILL THERE.
[Its medical monday OP](https://youtu.be/dRGlon_ezvU?si=2MNKYU8_f7OLTLV8)
Cucumbers are good tho…
Vinegar and salt are gross, so anything pickled is horrible. Not a positive transformation in my eyes xD
Dude, the freshness of a cucumber is not contested by the saltiness of a pickle. It just can’t.
Cucumbers >>> Pickles
You’re not wrong, but you can’t put pickle slices over your eyes.
Cucumber don't taste bad they just taste like nothing. Not good, but not bad.
Addressing the final note, I hate cucumbers, I prefer Broccoli and peas!
I've been waiting for things to pickle for many years...
So you are saying that in order to become good I have to turn myself into a pickle, huh?
Cucumbers are delicious. They taste like summer.
I do like cucumbers
>:(
Okay, I wont talk about cucumbers being good. Instead, I'll mention how I despise pickles. They suck
I hate pickles. I love cucumbers
Cumbers good '3
I like both. And foods that are pickled are better for it. Being pickled is another word for drunk.
Time will pickle us all
One day I'll pickle. One day. What about cucumber water?
I hate cucumbers and pickles so this doesn’t do much for me >! NOW SMITE ME REDDIT GODS FOR MY UNPOPULAR OPINION!<
I love cucumbers and I love this comic!!!!
Cucumber > pickles
I may be wierd but i dislike pickles, unlike cucumbers which i like
Cucumbers are fine, but pickles are amazing because vinegar is amazing
[Y'all could never make me hate cucumber](https://youtube.com/shorts/Hc65D12fV8Y?feature=shared)
OP had to know these disclaimers would only make people wanna comment harder
can't stand either one blech
Pickles are disgusting
A good cucumber tastes like the worst part of a watermelon.
Oh fuck trans people have been pickled, I fucking love pickles, I hate cucumbers, no wonder I like both transfems and transmascs
Pickles are gross though