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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    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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      4 months ago

      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”

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      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?