[Gpdd] CARE: Marrows/courgettes

[Algernon07 at aol.com]

Hi All,

A gpdd reader (thanks, Gillian!) explains:

             In the UK we call baby marrow's courgettes. I think that in the 
USA you call them zucchini.

I am delighted to learn this -- quite seriously. 
       Ages ago, reading one of Agatha Christie's novels, her famous 
detective, Hercule Poirot, was growing vegetable "marrows." I was both mystified and 
intrigued. The only "marrow" that I knew of was found in bones. Bones are 
associated with animals. So what was a vegetable marrow? 
       Now I know! It's such fun to have a puzzle finally answered.
       Just now I did what I should have done way back then...I consulted the 
dictionary: Of "vegetable marrows" it reads: any of various smooth-skinned 
elongated summer squashes with creamy white to deep green skins .
         I hate to re-ask a question that's just been answered, but are these 
suitable foods for our guinea pigs?

Alge