[Former Fetus]

Of course, the Spanish newspapers deny that Spanish cucumbers are the source of E.coli, unless of course "they got contaminated while transported". It would be funny if people hadn't died!

BTW, this is a picture of a Spanish cucumber field, published today in El Pais. I had never seen having to reach up to pick a cucumber.

[livius]

These appear to be the “Armenian cucumber,” a long, ridged, thin-skinned variety that is supposedly burpless (for persons sensitive to cukes). Personally, I think it’s also flavorless...

Many of the pickers, particularly in El Ejido, are actually not Spaniards but come from various benighted and disease-ridden parts of the ME.

However, the contamination could have come from anywhere. Who knows?

[Josephat]

The cucumbers are trellised, which is a much cleaner way to grow them.