Courgetti

Emma Prunty
3 min readFeb 9, 2020

I laughed when I noticed the name on this packet I had picked up in Tesco’s Supermarket. The spirally courgettes (ridiculously cut up and ready for me to cut, when I could of course have done it myself, but they were on the cheapo shelf) had already gone into that evening’s stir-fry.

Who’s ever heard of Courgetti, I chuckled to my family? They must have made that up. Mixing up their courgettes and their zucchini. Or, actually they mixed up…

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Emma Prunty

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