In 2009, a moment that occurred in one of the bulletins of Canal 24 Horas de TVE went absolutely viral. Beatriz Pérez Aranda, a presenter on the news channel, went on to carry out a quick chronicle of the Formula 1 race that was taking place at that time and left behind a phrase that, 14 years later, is still highly remembered.
“The one who is being the fastest is Kubica, so he is the one who goes like a cucumber,” the journalist told live. Despite all the time that has passed, Pérez Aranda herself continues to remember it as the first day and has explained on Playz, the RTVE online channel, what caused his surprising intervention.
“It is an anecdote that is nice,” the presenter begins by explaining. “I was with my colleagues, there was a Formula 1 race, and then Kubica had had an accident and the car had left him destroyed,” recalled Pérez Aranda.
It is at that moment when those same colleagues made the comment that marked the intervention of the communicator: “I hear that they say: ‘ah!, it’s that I was going like a cucumber’, and I say: ‘what a curious expression, like a cucumber ‘”, has counted. The journalist was challenged by the workers to say it live, something that she accepted without further ado.
“The filmmaker comes back to me, and then I have to say about the cucumber, but I didn’t remember the word,” Beatriz Pérez Aranda has confessed. The presenter of Canal 24 Horas had to remember while she was making her intervention, something that explains the leisurely tone with which she spoke at that time.
“‘Kubica, by the way, who was going like a cucumber’, and I did like this, like ‘I finally remembered the word!’, and you can hear through my microphone, if you see it again, the laughter of all my fellow producers who are behind”, he continued. “It is not a term that is misused, but rather that it is used in sports; what I regret is that they have not called me to do any cucumber campaign,” he concluded with a laugh.
