Cucumbersome

Cucumbersome: adjective. Describing something which gets in the way by the usage of cucumbers or products which involve cucumbers. This word was created in the early 20th century after the great cucumber disaster of Baltimore. There are varying accounts of what actually happened, but the general idea is as follows. The city theatre was putting on a show which involved a large amount of cucumbers being present on stage, around 200 of them, however due to a grave typo and several mistakes in the director's office, the supply of cucumbers was ordered from every supplier in the country. This resulted in over 4,000,000 cucumbers being shipped to Baltimore and the surrounding area every week, with a general cucumber famine in the rest of the country. Eventually the situation was resolved thanks to the import of rabbits, which in hand lead to the great rabbit calamity of Washington DC. The whole event was described by many as cucumbersome.