Charles Spurgeon Commentary Numbers 11:5

"We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:" — Numbers 11:5 (ASV)

Fine stuff, that, to recollect! "Why!" you say, "you have read something very much like that before." I am reading another record; but there is no originality in grumbling; it is always the same old thing over again. You might well suppose that I was reading in the Book of Exodus, but I am not; there are many years in between.

He who sits down with a discontented hand to paint a picture will paint the same picture that he painted before. There is no originality in the murmuring, although they put in a few new touches. Before, it was the flesh pots that they remembered; now, in addition to the flesh, there are these savory vegetables: the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick.