r/Vegetables • u/bunny_gvtz • 3d ago
What squash is this??
It was labeled at the store as “white squash” but tastes like zucchini…
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u/Such_Performance7581 3d ago
Calabacita; a bit more mild than zucchini and holds up better in caldos (soups).
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u/kharmatika 7h ago
I love that the suffix ita in Spanish can denote size (like here or in mosquito) and because of that is also used to cutify words (pobrecito). So when I see it used on words where it’s making them small, I sometimes will read it as cutified. Not “small squash” but “lil baby squashy”
Same thing happens sometimes in Japanese in the inverse. O is used to denote respect and it makes speech “beautiful”, but you’ll sometimes see it used in food to denote differences in quality, so you’ll have people who just call it negi (green onion) but when it’s good quality you’ll see people append O meaning “a very nice negi” but Onegi always reads to me as “most venerated Mr. Onion”
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u/MaleficentAstronomer 3d ago
That's Gerald. He likes long walks in the rain and has a cousin in Wichita
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u/Itchy-Researcher-116 3d ago
Zuch - Zook - Zuke - aka Courgette (Im afraid to misspell zucchini)
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u/tetlee 3d ago
Over ten years living in the US I was at the self check out and had a complete blank what they call them. Had to walk up to someone "err sorry what's this called". Felt like a right numpty.
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u/No-Kaleidoscope-166 3d ago
I once nannied for a family with a baby that had a developmental syndrome. I decided I'd cook for him, and give him the best opportunity he could get to improving whatever could be improved. I asked the dad once to buy a zucchini for me to fix for the baby. He came home and had to ask if what he got was a zucchini. And... it's been a long time, but I'm certain he was of Italian ancestry. They were American. They just had no clue.
Those poor kids. The whole family ate nothing but processed foods. I tried to get some real foods into them, as much as I could. Especially that baby.
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u/hooty_hoooo 3d ago
Ive seen these referred to as a grey zucchini. The all green ones are referred to as fancy zucchini
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u/cheekmo_52 3d ago
White squash, like zucchini, zephyr squash and yellow squash, is a variety of summer squash. It is also called scallop squash or pattypan. It looks nothing like zucchini (which is the squash in your picture.)
However, most summer squashes taste pretty similar, so even if it were a white squash it would still taste like zucchini.
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u/NoraNectarXO 3d ago
yeah that's calabacita, basically a milder lighter-green mexican squash in the same family as zucchini. stores mix up the names all the time.
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u/askmrlucky 2d ago
Related to the Italian Romanesco, I believe. That one is a little nutty and, like the Calabacita, holds up better in soups.
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u/WoodwifeGreen 3d ago
Calabacita, similar to a zucchini.
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u/cheekmo_52 3d ago
Calabacita is zucchini (or at least it is a Mexican dish made with zucchini.)
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u/WoodwifeGreen 3d ago
"It's both a dish and a squash. The squash is not quite the same as zucchini.
Per Google:
"Calabacitas (Mexican squash) are generally smaller, plumper, and a lighter or pale-green/greyish color compared to standard U.S. green zucchini, though they belong to the same species (Cucurbita pepo) and can be used interchangeably in most recipes. [1, 2, 3]"
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u/MeeoMeeo 3d ago
It is zucchini