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September 7

Manufacturers in Japan

What are the names of the dealerships of Toyota and Nissan in Tokyo, Japan? For new cars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.221.170.18 (talk) 03:45, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

See Toyota#Japan and Nissan#Japan for lists of Japanese dealership names. They probably all exist in Tokyo, but I didn't check. -- BenRG (talk) 08:29, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Vegetable Identification

Can anyone help me identify this vegetable? Kind of squishy feeling, little black dots on the skin. Some type of squash? http://oi59.tinypic.com/qzjk2g.jpg Grown in Eastern Washington, in the US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:8:B380:23E:240D:CA7A:C13A:E574 (talk) 21:20, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Some other details might help, shape, texture and size of leaves, any flowers, what do they look like? How does the plant grow? as a bush, trailing? how big is the plant. Richard Avery (talk) 07:40, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

WARNNG: That site has so many ads, including a video that ran without my permission, that it locked up my PC.

OP: Please upload pic to Wikipedia and change your link to that. StuRat (talk) 13:57, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I would have figured you were a NoScript user... SemanticMantis (talk) 17:50, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Just looks like a Golden Delicious apple, to me. They sometimes get black spots. Compare it to this one: [1]. And apples can get squishy when they are overripe. If they have been sprayed with chemicals, the skin can remain intact even after they've rotted on the inside. StuRat (talk) 13:57, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Other than being round, that's unlike any apple I've seen. Dismas|^(talk) 15:09, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

It's a little overexposed, but my immediate impression was of an apple cucumber. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:44, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

I would say you got it, Jack. this image especially looks just like what the OP has in their hand. Dismas|^(talk) 00:16, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

It pays to be old sometimes. When I was a kid, "cucumber" meant the apple variety and only that. I remember when the longer darker-green ones were first introduced here, and mothers etc being very careful to instruct their families to remove all vestiges of that "poisonous green skin". Hah! Now, there are so many choices (Lebanese, telegraph, ...), that apple cucumbers have to take very much a back seat, both in our shops (where they're seen only occasionally now), and in our article (where there's no mention of them at all). -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:49, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Actually it's mentioned among the burpless cucumbers. I admit, I've never seen or tasted this variety (though apparently it's grown in Europe too). What does it taste like? ---Sluzzelin talk 01:23, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I missed that. Well, I have to disagree about them being eaten with the skin. Unlike the darker/longer varieties, the skin of the apple cucumber is bitter and unpleasant, suitable only for the compost heap. But the inside is nice. A more delicate flavour, perhaps. A lot more seeds, too, but very soft and edible. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 01:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Might be a quince, or perhaps a variety of Summer_squash. It sound like you posses this fruit? Cut it open, then you can at least decide if it is a pome or some type of squash. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:49, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Is it a persimmon.? Bus stop (talk) 01:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Figured it out. It's a "lemon cucumber." Pretty tasty actually. Thanks for the help! 2601:8:B380:23E:414D:2085:808B:58AF (talk) 19:50, 9 September 2014 (UTC)