I'm just trying to figure out what exactly happened. So, okay: Amos carved a "Z" on the end of LH's smallishly large (or largishly small) zucchini and this circumcised the zucchini. Somehow this left a purplish scar or something on either the zucchini or LH; most likely on LH because I can't think of how a purplish scar can appear on a vegetable that is green on the outside and white on the inside (unless Amos used a dye of some sort, which gives a whole new color to the problem and raises the question about why Amos would dye his rapier).