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Tran 1 Chris Tran Walker AP Language and Composition Period 4 8 June 2011 Its a cucumbered life for me.

It started with a Subway sandwich, a foot long Italian bread BLT with lettuce, light mayonnaise, oil, Swiss cheese, and Cucumbers...I hate cucumbers. But with that first meal and every meal that came after, every bite I took; I became a little savvier of cucumbers. They are not that bad, but not that great. They certainly are edible despite my thinking otherwise. They actually go well in with some dishes, but many dishes could do without. What started as a hate towards cucumbers and an experiment to see if I could learn to enjoy them ended up taking me on a journey that led to my less distasteful view on the cucumber. A story worth sharing, especially for those who have a food they will not try due to a dislike, this is the story of my cucumbered life. Before I started my experiment, which was to have cucumbers with everything I eat and drink, I despised cucumbers. Despised them with a capital D. There was a day when a salad a friend of mine had had cucumbers in it. I took a slice; it was the casual cucumber: thin, small, round, and back then, disgusting to me. The smell of cucumbers I did not like. The texture, the taste, and the shape, all things I did not like. I attempted to put it in my mouth. Could not do it, just could get myself to try a cucumber by itself. It was not until a few weeks later, though still not having started my experiment, that I actually sat down and ate cucumbers.

Tran 2 I was in California on a mildly warm Saturday noon, and my choir friends (we were on a choir trip) and I were just leaving Disneyland to get lunch at the subway by our hotel. I was going for a 6-inch sub, but why pay $3.99 when you get a foot-long for $5? Besides having twice as much the amount of cucumbers, a foot-long was a much better deal. Oh and the girl who put the toppings onto my sandwich put a lot of cumbers on it! I mean a lot! I am positive there were over twelve slices on my sandwich, and I wanted to remove every single one. I reluctantly made weird faces as I ate the cucumbers, the cucumbers just didnt go well with my BLT. It was May twenty-first, a date that will live down in infamy, it was my first confrontation with the cucumbers. It was not until four days later that I bought cucumbers for my experiment. Two cucumbers to be exact, priced at fifty-nine cents each at Albertsons (in Troutdale, Oregon). I made the purchase around 1 P.M during lunch and did not actually begin my project until the next day...sort of. Peer pressure is a tough thing, and when thirty people (give or take twenty-seven) are urging me to take a bite out of a harmless cucumber that they have taken the first bites from, I cannot help but to do so, and so I did. It was Gross with a capital G. Not only that, but I wanted to throw up. I believe that certain bite I spat out the cucumber in a garbage can. Cucumbers alone just do not associate with me. I had a melon Gatorade the same day, the big 32 oz. ones. I did not have that day, something to slice my cucumbers with, so I just bit off (which I didnt take pleasure in doing) cucumber chunks and put it in the Gatorade. Now, melon flavored Gatorade I already did not like, so with the addition of cucumber flavoring, along with the cucumber getting soaked in Gatorade right in front of my eyes, I really did not enjoy it any more. Darlyn Chester did not help either by continuing to add more chunks. Drink, cringe, try-to-eat-

Tran 3 cucumber, spit-back-into bottle, thats how it went and the bottle went into the trash. I was done. I will begin my project tomorrow I said. This is going to be so tough I thought. With the first breakfast, the thought of it being tough was tougher than ever. It was just one my usual morning breakfasts, light and easy: two Eggo French toast waffles. Usually I leave the waffles plain, but because of the occasion I added the works. On came the syrup, and knifed on was the butter. I am sure a chef would have called it delectable! Until I threw on the cucumbers, then he would have just called it hells waffle. I gagged on the meal, and could not believe I was eating such a hideous concoction. I managed somehow to down it though, a great feat indeed. After the meal I gagged on no other until the grand finale. I may have felt like throwing up on other meals or snacks after, but never were my gag reflex urged to start doing their jobs! The next few things I ate with cucumbers were just snacks. Snacks included 3 Fritos chip on a slice of cucumber, which added a better crunch to the cucumber, but did not overpower the cucumber feel or taste, in addition to Chips Ahoy! Chewy from home, which go terrible with cucumbers. The best snack with cucumbers was the tortilla chips. Hint of Lime, Tostitos tortilla chips to be more specific. They made the cucumbers edible! For the first time I kind of enjoyed the cucumbers. Lunch that day brought me cucumbered cocoa pebbles with milk and a bit of the schools version of hot pocket. For Dinner, I got yakisoba noodles from a place by my moms work. I also drank water with cucumber for the first time on the first day, and was incapable of eating the cucumber after drinking. Cucumbers do not get along with liquid substances like milk. It does go along with crunchy things like cocoa pebbles though, since the crunchiness of the cucumber is cancelled somewhat. Cucumbers can be that

Tran 4 foods best friends if it is not in liquid. The yakisoba my mom ordered happened to already have cucumbers, but they were cooked and small, so I went ahead and added some of my slices of Safeway-bought cucumber, which was a little bigger and raw. The one thing I did not like about it was that the food was hot, and my cucumbers were cold so it felt out of place. Otherwise the extra crunch was good action. The water I finished my day off ended up with the cucumber slice going down the drain. I thought of wet toilet papers and how nobody really like having those, and the thought disgusted me, so I said bye-bye to the cucumber, and that ended day one of my cucumbered life. Day two was definitely not as bad as day one. This could be due to the fact that I ran out of cucumbers almost halfway through the day...but day two, which was more or less the same, went a little something like this: Cereal and coffee, a bunch of rice-cake combinations, a piece of gum, and more noodles- this time in the form of Nissin Cup Noodles. They were actually all pretty decent with cucumbers, with the exception of the coffee. I would say after day two, I started to not mind cucumbers as much as I did the day before, and I absolutely did not hate them like I once had. It was a strange feeling, and garnered me to think, was my distaste just from my psych? Did I tell myself that it was bad by removing it from every meal and not trying it? Was it fear? With this experiment, I actually tried cucumbers, probably having had it with things very few have tried it with, and I find myself not disliking it that much as I did before. Going into more details about what I had day 2, the cereal was okay with the cumber, but once gain the milk threw it off. The coffee was black instant coffee (Starbucks VIA) and it took away the taste of the cucumber, but once again, being a liquid it made eating the cucumber feel awkward. The rice-cake combinations are what I

Tran 5 like to refer as the rice-cake revolution. It started with a slice of cucumber on a round caramel rice cake, which was slight good, given the crunch. Though the rice-cake was a lot more dry and crispy. The next step brought a carrot in became a crunch fest. Last but not least was the best snack ever (which like the Tostitos revelation came during math), some kind of barbecue wavy potato chips and cucumbers all on a caramel rice cake. The saltiness of the chips mixed with the caramel sweetness of the rice cake with the add-on of cucumbers made it feel fresh, and oh so good! By far one of the best snacks had during this experiment. The strong flavored gum sort of engulfed the thin half slice of cucumber, leaving it only to be felt during some bites, like any other small bits of food getting stuck in to gum, but very small hint of cucumber taste. I chewed that gum for almost a whole hour, until I spat it out and started eating my ramen, which was with shrimp picante style. The hotness kind of took the flavor away, like the coffee in them morning. Chips were salty and so were the Tostitos the preceding day. I started to note patterns by the end of day two. Crunchy and salty goes a long way with cucumbers. Day three did not begin until a whole three days had passed since day two. I apologize for not being so committed. The reason behind it though is that I did not go out and buy cucumbers until two days later (and I do not like starting midday). After day twos cup noodles I saved a bit of cucumber and forgot about it. It lay by my sock in my backpack for five hours, and when I found it, it smelt less like a cucumber and more like a dirty sock. Of course I threw it away, who wants to eat dirty socks? I did have dish of rice and pork with cucumbers in it in between day two and three, and found myself disliking the tomato more. Back on buying a cucumber, this time, the one cucumber was

Tran 6 bought at Safeway, at sixty-nine cents. Not sure why I only bought one, though I think it was because I felt like I would not go through it that quickly and could buy another one elsewhere to add to my places of where cucumbers where bought. The first meal ate was a full deal, a breakfast of champions. My stomach felt mighty fine after this serving of egg, purple juice, cheerios and milk, and blueberry waffles. The cheerios with their plain nature are the best cereal Ive had with cucumbers. Cocoa pebbles were too small and crunchy, and cookie crisps were too big, and the taste did not go well with cucumbers. Cheerios however where the perfect size and crunch to fit with cucumbers. The waffles were stale and bad and so the cucumbers on them were removed and salted while the waffles ended up in the dumps. My math teacher had said something about salting the cucumbers and leaving them over night, and people around have been telling me to salt them as well, so I got to it, skipped the night procedure and resulted in putting too much salt on the cucumbers. It was not that bad, just too salty. The cranberry juice, or at least I think that is what it was, was okay, and I ate the cucumber afterwards. I have no problem with that now, as I have become more and more used to the green beings. The sunny-side-up egg: Delicious. Even with cucumbers. I folded the eggs into a taco shape with the cucumbers inside, and with the yolk running down on the cucumber, dripping out, and the white with the green, it was just delicious. Cucumbers, delicious...never thought Id say that. Also on the third day was a smores pop tart, which after eating it with cucumber, I did not really want smore. Darlyn gave me some Safeway orange chicken, which by the time I ate it, was cold, so Safeway cucumbers went along just fine. When I got home, my world was like parallel structured or something. I started the day with an egg taco,

Tran 7 and ended the day with a dinner...of cantina tacos! When squeezed lime over it, the lime juice sizzling quietly into the meat and the vegetable, it was oh so satisfying! I personally think they made the tacos better. They provided a needed crunch. You see that I have gone to some kind of transformation from hating in cucumbers to saying they make some things better. By day four, things were starting to get boring, and I was getting lazy. I was almost out of cucumbers again, since I only bought one. This day I had an actual hot pocket, artichoke chicken I think, and the cucumbers tasted just fine on it, the contrasting heat actually worked well here. I have not a clue why it took me so long to try McDonalds with cucumbers seeing how I have it all the time, but on the fourth day I finally had a Mcdouble and McChicken with Cucumbers. Or should I say McCucmbers? McYummy! Not really, the cucumbers did not really have an effect, and after that speedy meal, my cucumbers were gone and off to the drive-thru, or out if you know what I mean. Two weeks after my first subway sandwich, and a weekend break between day three and four, I had another one. This time a toasted foot-long Chipotle Chicken sub with light mayonnaise, oil, lettuce, olives, cheddar cheese, and cucumbers. Go back and read the third paragraph. It was nothing like that. I had no trouble consuming this one. I actually enjoyed the cucumbers here. A day later my mom purchased for me two of the worlds cutest Asian cucumbers. Oh they were so small! But I soon learned that size does not matter. Their taste was the strongest of any cucumbers Ive had so far (three...not counting these two small ones). The fourth day, I had more things with cucumbers than any other day before. Mostly junk, and in part due to Audrey Strohs graduation party, but that day I had a

Tran 8 homemade egg sandwich, kettle popcorn, fruit punch, chocolate-chip cookie, chocolate cake, fudge, peanuts, Rice-Crispies snack, potato salad pasta, cocoa-cola, and Im not sure potato chips. The sunny-side-up egg sandwich was, with the green and the white, and the yolk dripping, with the addition of bread...delicious. The coke kind of reminded me of the coffee, except you could actually taste the cucumber flavoring it up, which made it the worst thing all day. Everything else was adequate at best. Day five, or what I considered my last full cucumebred day. Rice Crispies cereal, iced cofee, a banana and a fried vegetable mix ended my journey.... well until the grand finale. The coffee was quite hilarious, I slipped in a cucumber and the coffee soon tasted just like it. Tall Caramel Ice Coffee with milk: $1.75. Safeway cucumber: 69cents (my cutecumbers were consumed). Jeffery Browns face after drinking cucumber coffee: Priceless. That brings us to The Grand Finale...something different that I have not done, something that involves heavy drinking and something that requires no eating. The grand finale...a smoothie and a face mask. Five seconds and one gag is all it took. One I thought to be the worst of my cucumber experience was actually more enjoyed than eating it; the other gave my face a burning sensation and made it feel all fresh. What a way to end my cucumbered life.

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