Pickles by Brian Crane for August 02, 2024

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    allen@home  3 months ago

    Well guys there is an easier way. Stop planting zucchini every spring.

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    C  3 months ago

    That should be a felony

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    ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ  3 months ago

    do they set the bags on fire, ring the doorbell, and run?

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    sirbadger  3 months ago

    At least they don’t grow 300 pound pumpkins for giant pumpkin contests.

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    hariseldon59  3 months ago

    Is this a rerun? I seem to remember Opal trying to get rid of zucchini before.

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 3 months ago

    When I lived in AZ, I had 3 tomato plants on the west side of my house. With the housing code block fence they got about 2 hours of HOT sun daily. I couldn’t give away the tomatoes I had so many

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    Friend of mine posted on Facebook, lock your cars at night, or in the morning it might be full of zucchini!

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member 3 months ago

    I would love it if someone would do that for me. I’d make pickled zucchini.

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    Macushlalondra  3 months ago

    For heaven’s sake, give it to me! We love zucchini, I’d make great use of it.

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    heathcliff2  3 months ago

    Oh, come on. Fry it with cornmeal. A handy snack, with or without catshup, while at play.

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    Argythree  3 months ago

    Aren’t there any food banks near them where they could donate the fresh veggies?

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    rekam Premium Member 3 months ago

    Mama-san next door to our prior house planted one zucchini but it grew so big hubby asked her daughter if she was planning on feeding the whole block.

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    californiamonty  3 months ago

    The light may be out, but that doesn’t mean the doorbell camera is!

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    LoveBritTV Premium Member 3 months ago

    August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day! Now you know and can participate if you want. This year my zucchini plants produced only 21 and now they have mostly died. So I have started several more new ones in another bed. I share my zucchini with my daughter.

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    kendavis09  3 months ago

    She was and it was highly contagious.

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    Ubintold  3 months ago

    Don’t grow the plants and you won’t have to resort to this sneaking around.

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    Troglodyte  3 months ago

    Let’s hope the neighbours don’t have a Ring doorbell system!

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    annebonny  3 months ago

    LOL, my mum dumps her’s on me ….

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    win.45mag  3 months ago

    Roscoe is not a good watch dog.

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    ddl297  3 months ago

    One of my other favorite comics had the heroine making both zucchini casserole and muffins. Dad said the family is more likely to eat the muffins, so give the casserole to the new neighbors. THERE’S a welcome, eh?

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    knittyditty  3 months ago

    I wish someone would drop off zucchini on my front steps….

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    juicebruce  3 months ago

    An oldie but a goodie from 2007 ! There are many uses for Zucchini … But you will have to work at it ;-)

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  3 months ago

    Only grow what you can eat and only eat what you can finish. Had an aunt and uncle that shopped every day for that day, Nothing was just thrown out.

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    Slowly, he turned...  3 months ago

    People are always trying to get rid of zucchini.

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    sarahbowl1 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Bring me some! I love Zucchini!

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    Dot2Dot  3 months ago

    My neighbors know I abhor zucchini and all other types squash.

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    ANIMAL  3 months ago

    This looks AWFULLY familiar

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    Ol' me  3 months ago

    There’s that little thing called a “dumpster.”

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    Blu Bunny  3 months ago

    Zucchini bread, yum, yum!

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    chris_o42  3 months ago

    I just keep making zucchini bread and freezing it to give away for the rest of the year. No one ever turns it down.

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    Blu Bunny  3 months ago

    Episode of ALF, he planted a garden and had lots of zucchini, he says, what’s odd is I didn’t plant any.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member 3 months ago

    I just warned my new neighbor about bags of tomatoes. It looks like a good year.

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    rgulyash  3 months ago

    Don’t grow it comes to mind

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    nsaber  3 months ago

    Trying to get rid of excess zukes is an annual event.

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    assrdood  3 months ago

    I approve of this message and disposal arrangement.

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    Zebrastripes  3 months ago

    Ain’t that the truth….

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 3 months ago

    “♫ Zucchini, zucchini men have loaved thee…♫”

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    wongo  3 months ago

    Isn’t pasta your bedtime?

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 3 months ago

    “In gourd we trust!”

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    ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ  3 months ago

    like a scene from Ⅰnvasion of the Body Snatchers

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    kaycstamper  3 months ago

    Years ago my family came out of church to find our car filled with zucchini and my son exclaimed, “Man, our car isn’t even safe at church!” The kids knew I’d made a pact with God, if He provided it, I’d fix it. Sure enough I borrowed my sister’s recipe book, “101 ways to fix zucchini” and used it all summer! Their favorite was zucchini cake. I loved them all except my husband’s zucchini stew, it tasted okay except overcooked zucchini is mushy.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  3 months ago

    Roast your zucchini and add to the rice with seasoned ground beef.

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    HarryLime Premium Member 3 months ago

    Years ago my neighbour planted cucumbers in his garden. A lost every day he’d go out and examine the vines. One day I went to the local market and bought this huge zucchini, which looks fairly similar to a cuke, and under the cover of night, slipped it into his cucumber patch. The next morning he was at my door, proudly displaying the vegetable. Boy, he was one happy gardener … until I pointed out it was a zucchini and asked him if it had been attached to the vine. Great fun!

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    walt1968pat Premium Member 3 months ago

    It works for turnips also.

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    ladykat  3 months ago

    I’ll take a couple.

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    jlundy  3 months ago

    …goes for tomatoes as well.

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    Queen of America  3 months ago

    Just yank the roots out and plant something else. The few time you really need one, just get it at the store. Nobody wants your bags full of them.

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    Drbarb71 Premium Member 3 months ago

    We have been doing that with peaches. But we ring the bell =D

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    Plumb.Bob Premium Member 3 months ago

    Yes getting rid of it is a chore but I am gunning for the sneak who keeps planting so much of it in our garden.

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    maxcat631  3 months ago

    I always wondered why they didn’t just donate it to the local foodbank.

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    ms-ss  3 months ago

    In Iowa towns that is the reason people keep their kitchen door locked.

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    wndflower1  3 months ago

    the loneliest guy in the world is the one in the grocery buying zucchinis

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    Strawberry King  3 months ago

    Honey, did you order something from Doordash?

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    ajakimber425  3 months ago

    How about not growing them?

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    stepzla  3 months ago

    I’ve said it before… PULL UP THE VINES!:-p

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    zeexenon  3 months ago

    Try the-bread-of-life.

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    Daltongang Premium Member 3 months ago

    Cue the Mission Impossible Theme.

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    Stargazer1950  3 months ago

    August 8th is National Sneak Some Zucchini On Your Neighbor’s Porch Day!!!

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    KEA  3 months ago

    why do people chronically over plant zucchini? surely even one is enough (or more than enough)

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member 3 months ago

    Remember the fate of Mr. Gianelli!

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    Kidon Ha-Shomer  3 months ago

    Setting up a farmstand by the curb works, mine only takes donations for the T2T fund.

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    cafed00d Premium Member 3 months ago

    Hey Rose, leave some at my front door; I’ll make Kung Pao!

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    caring55  3 months ago

    I wish she lived on my street. I long for bags of fresh zucchini. Squash bugs ruin everything that I plant

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    wildlandwaters  3 months ago

    I remember reading many years ago about someone who couldn’t bear to throw them out, so they’d wrap them up like a gift and leave them on the seat of their unlocked car. Eventually someone would steal the package, thinking they were getting something valuable!… (of course if they liked zucchini, they struck it rich! If not, oh well…)

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    bookworm0812  3 months ago

    Bring me some! You don’t even have to do it under cover of night!

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    Mary McNeil Premium Member 3 months ago

    Hope that’s Dan & Sylvia’s place – as payback for Nelson living with with Gramma and Grampa.

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    humorist54  3 months ago

    Garrison Keillor talked about this in “Lake Wobegon Days”

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    Ukko wilko  3 months ago

    Compost.

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    Bill The Nuke  3 months ago

    One of our neighbors puts zucchini and cukes on a table next to tthe road with a sign “free veggies”

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    franish2bzn  3 months ago

    The only time they lock the doors in Lake Wobegon is zucchini season.

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    worddancer  3 months ago

    Take the zucchini to the food bank where they will be appreciated.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member 3 months ago

    It is a well known fact that one zucchini plant will feed the entire neighborhood. Whether they want it or not.

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    aussie399 Premium Member 13 days ago

    There is. Stop growing it

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