The Undertaker “Fed Up With The Cucumber Stuff”
The Undertaker is known for a lot of things but one of them is a bizarre hatred of cucumbers but he doesn’t want anyone daring to call it a fear anymore.
Speaking on his Patreon Q&A in March 2024, The Undertaker answered one of wrestling’s most burning questions – just why is the giant, powerful Phenom of WWE scared of cucumbers:
Alright, here it is. When I was just a wee little Undertaker, like a kindergarten, first grade Undertaker, I come home from school one day. My mother had taken a bunch of fresh cucumbers and cut them up into slices and had them soaking in a big bowl of vinegar. It was that day. [At that time] it was the greatest thing ever.
So I proceeded to eat the whole bowl of cucumbers soaked in vinegar. Well, something about that didn’t settle well with my stomach. Shortly after I ate all of the cucumbers, I expelled all of the contents of my stomach. From that moment on, the smell, for a long time even to see a cucumber I would get somewhat, I wouldn’t say nauseous but queasy. Smell a cucumber? Forget about it. My stomach is just like [nope]…it’s like my mouth starts watering.
So that’s why I hate cucumbers because I ate too many once as a child, left a horrible, horrible scar in my memory of how bad I threw up. How sick that I got. Then just the very smell of a cucumber [made me sick], heaven forbid I taste one.
Don’t Say The Undertaker Is Scared Of Cucumbers
Now appearing on his Six Feet Under podcast, one viewer using the name dragonchaser suggested that a cucumber should have ended The Undertaker’s WrestleMania Streak, and it seems the joke is wearing thin for the WWE Hall of Famer:
I’m getting a little fed up with the cucumber stuff, really. I may just slap the next person who says I’m scared of cucumbers. I’m not scared of cucumbers. I don’t like cucumbers. They taste awful. They smell horrible. They upset my stomach when I was a kid. That’s the only thing. I don’t like cucumbers, I don’t like the smell of them.
I ain’t scared of nothing. Why do you have to bring up cucumbers, dragonchaser? I’m gonna chase your ass down the street and beat you with a cucumber. How about that?
So unless you want to be chased and beaten with a berry by the man who won WWE’s first Punjabi Prison match then don’t suggest The Deadman is afraid of cucumbers. However, The Undertaker has revealed how Paul Bearer played a hilarious prank on him involving his archnemesis.