Bacteria E. coli bacteria cucumber of panic across the continent of Europe
The cucumbers are still very much in the menu Sheffield fruit and vegetable stalls - how to bring the buyers in buying vegetables despite being linked to a potentially fatal error spreading across Europe.
More than 1,000 people on the continent are ill from the virus is rumored to be carried in contaminated cucumbers, prompting one of the biggest shocks in food growing fresh produce.
The outbreak has been attributed to E. coli, as well as a syndrome that causes kidney problems that threaten life, with the first cases were reported in Germany.
But at the heart of Sheffield Castle market, traders continue to offer the cucumbers for sale - although most of the homegrown variety.
Ian Bingham, 43, who runs the fruit Bingham and Brown and vegetable stand, told The Star that has not seen any drop in trade since the scare began.
"It just made us more aware," he said. "We have an additional sign in the square saying our cucumbers are English. I do not think it will affect us. People were scared at first, but it's going to happen, I'm sure."
Ian, who lives in Sothall and has worked at the store from his family for 27 years, said he will be selling cucumbers produce Spanish after the country was accused of starting the attack of virus.
"Normally I buy Spanish at certain times of the year, but certainly not in the near future," he said. "We try to have the English team as much as we can."
Shopper Charles Moxon, 76, of Bolton-on-Dearne, said he would not stop buying cucumbers.
"No problem with cucumbers in this country by the sounds of it," he said, adding that some reports have lettuce and tomatoes in the frame too.
"It does not sound as if they knew what he was, going all over the place with him. It is a mystery. "
A client of 84 years of age, who declined to be identified, happily bought half of a cucumber salad for your summer - then admitted he had "forgotten" about the virus scare.
"I do not think I'm at risk," he said. "The world is a big place. When you think of the number of people who have this, is like dropping a pea into the ocean. It is creating a panic about it."
Cucumbers were sold in the offering price of three for £ 1 in the post McClarnan Stuart, Stuart fruits and vegetables.
Stuart, 38, said: "Confidence seems to be there, they're selling. People are looking for him, but because we are selling English cucumbers are not affected. They are grown in Hull.
"We're not playing Spanish cucumbers now. Why buy anyway Spanish when English is cheap enough?"
Ian Cull, 31, who runs the fruit stand Fayre, said the virus scare has not affected sales of cucumber, but said the Spanish variety is losing its suppliers.
"There are no platforms on the wholesale of foreign cucumbers that people will not buy," he said. "I think it's sad to leave something immediately rather than find out exactly what the problem."
In addition, Marks and Spencer in Fargate showed a tray stacked with cucumbers UK, and buyers were buying lunch sandwiches wild red salmon - with slices of cucumber.
More than 1,000 people on the continent are ill from the virus is rumored to be carried in contaminated cucumbers, prompting one of the biggest shocks in food growing fresh produce.
The outbreak has been attributed to E. coli, as well as a syndrome that causes kidney problems that threaten life, with the first cases were reported in Germany.
But at the heart of Sheffield Castle market, traders continue to offer the cucumbers for sale - although most of the homegrown variety.
Ian Bingham, 43, who runs the fruit Bingham and Brown and vegetable stand, told The Star that has not seen any drop in trade since the scare began.
"It just made us more aware," he said. "We have an additional sign in the square saying our cucumbers are English. I do not think it will affect us. People were scared at first, but it's going to happen, I'm sure."
Ian, who lives in Sothall and has worked at the store from his family for 27 years, said he will be selling cucumbers produce Spanish after the country was accused of starting the attack of virus.
"Normally I buy Spanish at certain times of the year, but certainly not in the near future," he said. "We try to have the English team as much as we can."
Shopper Charles Moxon, 76, of Bolton-on-Dearne, said he would not stop buying cucumbers.
"No problem with cucumbers in this country by the sounds of it," he said, adding that some reports have lettuce and tomatoes in the frame too.
"It does not sound as if they knew what he was, going all over the place with him. It is a mystery. "
A client of 84 years of age, who declined to be identified, happily bought half of a cucumber salad for your summer - then admitted he had "forgotten" about the virus scare.
"I do not think I'm at risk," he said. "The world is a big place. When you think of the number of people who have this, is like dropping a pea into the ocean. It is creating a panic about it."
Cucumbers were sold in the offering price of three for £ 1 in the post McClarnan Stuart, Stuart fruits and vegetables.
Stuart, 38, said: "Confidence seems to be there, they're selling. People are looking for him, but because we are selling English cucumbers are not affected. They are grown in Hull.
"We're not playing Spanish cucumbers now. Why buy anyway Spanish when English is cheap enough?"
Ian Cull, 31, who runs the fruit stand Fayre, said the virus scare has not affected sales of cucumber, but said the Spanish variety is losing its suppliers.
"There are no platforms on the wholesale of foreign cucumbers that people will not buy," he said. "I think it's sad to leave something immediately rather than find out exactly what the problem."
In addition, Marks and Spencer in Fargate showed a tray stacked with cucumbers UK, and buyers were buying lunch sandwiches wild red salmon - with slices of cucumber.
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