Fun story about the cucumber: It was drawn as a tease/innuendo.
I have a character in a different fandom who is a British art thief, and a friend of mine had a 5-alarm crush on said character. So I teased said friend with the question of "Hey, what if I drew you a picture of his...ah... 'English cucumber'?"
This met with enthusiastic interest... so I did.
...which was met with the sort of groans reserved for truly awful puns.