White or brown toast?

Toasted or not?

Anything else I should know about cucumber sandwiches?

  • Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net
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    Here’s how you make a cucumber sandwich. Get a French baguette, cut it in half like a hoagie, finely dice cucumber and mix it with shredded carrots and diced jalapeno before quick pickling with cilantro, salt, pepper, garlic and lime juice. Let those sit for like 10 minutes. Take some chicken and marinate it with soy sauce, garlic, ginger, etc. Broil that shit, shred it up, stuff into sandwich and top with pickled veg

    Finish by cutting some mayonnaise with sriracha and a bit of lime juice until it’s drizzling consistency (salt and pepper to taste), and drizzle over the top of sandwich, top with more cilantro

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      4 months ago

      That’s a bit like saying: you make a cucumber sandwich by crisping up some duck, steam some pancakes, put some duck on a pancake, then cut up cucumber and spring onions to sprinkle on the duck before using hoisin sauce as the paste to stick your rolled up pancakes together.

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      If you went into an English tea room for afternoon tea and they served you that monstrosity and claimed it was a cucumber sandwich, you’d be perfectly within your rights to burn the entire place to the ground and not a single judge in the country would convict you.

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        If I made some idiot a bahn mi and they cried about it then they can kindly fuck themselves and not eat it

        that monstrosity

        Most British response ever to a description of a bahn mi. Oh no, ethnic cuisine!!!

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          If the thread had been titled “how do I make a bahn mi” then I’d have upvoted you to the moon. But it wasn’t. It was asking how to make that most English (not British, but English) of foods, a cucumber sandwich. And in case that wasn’t a clue enough, the community is Ask UK. Not Ask Vietnam or Ask America.

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            Cucumbers aren’t native to England. They’re not even native to Europe.

            The English, get this, incorporated the exciting new vegetable into their diet after being introduced by Indians, and ignored whiny people telling the world “cucumbers aren’t English” until they died out and we’re forgotten by history. Imagine the 17th century version of yourself saying they’ll burn down any teahouse that sells the exotic Indian “cucumber” because it’s not English?

            You can’t expand your culture if you never try to expand it and “burn down” any change.

            Imagine the bellend in 1650 that went “oh tea? I don’t touch that Chinese stuff, never tried it and never will, and I’ll burn down any establishment that sells it”

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          Tbf, the Brit probably wants something as a simple as a cucumber sandwich (calling it a monstrosity is prbly evil), though I believe he could’ve just used kimchi pickle cucumbers or just a plain pickle

          What you made is just a good working class sandwich good for an entree, not for an appetizer for tea, before the main course

          Would it suffice, @buried_treasure@feddit.uk to use pickles?

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        A baguette is bread, a sandwich is bread with stuff on it. Seeing as I described a baguette laden with filling, I’m pretty sure I described a sandwich, hoss

        Can you guys just ban me from this “feddit” shithole, yall are terminally obtuse and unfunny