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Cucumbers being unwrapped for display, because the plastic should not be visible.

Cucumbers being wrapped at all...

A wrapped cucumber is actually better for the environment than it's unwrapped counterpart [0] as they last longer leading to fewer deliveries and less waste

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...

There are alternative approaches though? Coating it with wax?

Do you like eating wax? Rutabagas are commonly coated in paraffin wax to prevent them drying out, but no one eats raw, unpeeled rutabagas. On the other hand, cucumbers are usually eaten raw with the skin intact.

In some places maybe. In Greece, where I'm from, they're normally peeled.

It's a funny old world, isn't it, when you can't make a simple statement of fact without someone popping up and saying "not in my neck of the woods"? And their neck of the woods is half a world away probably. Joys of the internets...

That depends on what type of cucumber you have. A lot of garden varieties seem to have tougher skins that are less pleasant to eat, but the cucumbers that are sold in grocery stores in North America have tender skins. I prefer cucumbers sith tender skins, myself.

You might very well be right, but I think there's also a force of habbit behind it. Cucumber skins aren't tougher than zucchini skins (in Greece that is) and we never peel zucchinis, so we could leave the cucumber skins on, too. We just somehow... always take them off. Or almost always. I've had Greek salad with unpeeled cucumbers once or twice. But it looked a bit weird.

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