Cucumber Time.🥒🥒

In Britain, when politicians go on their summer holidays and news slows down, we call it the “silly season”. But in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish and Slovak it’s known as “cucumber time”. This is because historically, cities would empty while the refreshing green vegetables were in season. Germans, Estonians and Croatians go one step further – they call it “pickled cucumber season”.

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