One of the Egyptian foods Israel nostalgically recalled during wilderness wandering. Cucumbers, though simple, represented the variety and satisfaction of Egypt's agricultural abundance. Numbers 11 lists them alongside fish, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic - a Mediterranean diet the people missed desperately while eating manna. Their complaint reveals the human heart: facing daily miracles, they craved cucumbers. The mundane comfort of familiar food outweighed the significance of supernatural provision. This wasn't about nutrition but about control, preference, and the seductive memory of slavery's compensations. God was leading them to land flowing with milk and honey, but they wanted cucumbers now.