You could have your blossom and eat your fruit too on mornings when you have a surplus of male flowers beyond what you need for polination. I've seen but not tried them fried -- the flowers, that is.

Silly anecdote 1, As a child I didn't recognize Zucchini at the grocers as they were harvested at the more common small size, whereas my mom would allow them to mature to the size of your forearm in the home garden!

Anecdote 2, It was a year before I realized that I could make the 'courgette' recipes in a British cookbook I'd been using