You're making it sound like it's a bad thing people are being influenced to eat healthier. Not to mention, the title is kinda clickbait.

SFG's marketing director said that as things stand farmers in Iceland are not managing to keep up with surging consumer demand, but said she hopes supply will be back to normal "in a week or so".

Wow, sounds serious.

Ms Sveinsdóttir from the SFG also expressed some scepticism, suggesting other factors were at play. Some cucumber farmers replace their cucumber plants at this time of year, which are not yet producing large amounts, she said.

In addition to this, schools are returning from the summer holidays, which puts additional pressure on supplies.

"Everything is happening at the same time," Ms Sveinsdóttir observed, but said the social media trend remained one of the main contributing factors.

"This is the first time we have experienced something like this," Ms Sveinsdóttir said, adding that had the TikTok trend become popular earlier in the summer, "when the [cucumber] production was in full blast" and the shortage would not have been noticeable.

Wow, the Chinese propaganda is so sophisticated! They must have known about all these factors in advance to be able to minorly inconvenience people who want a salad for a whole week. 🙄

Three influencers downvoted you.

those fucking chinese-affiliated influencers and they're ability to make people eat cucumbers! what's next, destroying society by tricking the youth into having a little cream cheese on their toast?

People buying cucumbers doesn't show any potential for destabilizing an economy.

Damn CCCP, how dare they make our people eat healthier!!!1!!

I'd blame people who blindly follow influencers. If it's not influencers, they just follow the next stupid things. Ads they see on tv, nigerian princes, nft's, you name it.

fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.

Given linguists are wont to confirm that English (d)evolves based on what's popular, essentially vapid influencer famewhores are driving the evolution of English, and no one with a brain cell. So if you wanted to know why 'emails' is wrong as a noun, instead of a lesson on uncountable mass nouns we get "lol, 3 trafficks today, smash that 'like' button".

In Denmark we call it "cucumber times", when the news have nothing to report on during summer. BBC seems to have taken that term very literally.

not even a fad, just people going "hm you know what, those cucumbers look tasty, i'm gonna try that"

I am so surprised that [email protected] didn't have a NSFW comment

The TikTok trend is roughly as follows:

• smash a cucumber and cut in chunks
• add salt, mix and put in the fridge for a while to remove some water from the cucumber
• rince
• make a sauce with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, fresh ginger
• add some topping, like green onions, sesame seed, wakame seeweed, pepper flakes, cilantro, crushed peanuts or whatever you like

Cut cucumber in thin slices and put in a bowl. Mix the following: 2 tablespoons of water 2 tablespoons of vinegar (preferably apple cider) 1 tablespoon of sugar 0.5 teaspoon of salt 0.25 teaspoon of pepper

Pour it over the cucumber slices and leave it alone for 10-15 minutes.