Cucumber sandwiches WTF??

peanuthead · 14-11-2009 03:01PM #1

I was listening to the radio yesterday and it reminded me of something that I had always wondered... why are they considered so fecking posh?? They're like the cheapest sandwich filling EVER!!!!

We used to get these going to primary school for that exact reason. Our teachers were probably talking about us in the staff room, lol saying "who do they think they are" When in fact we were too poor for anything else!! ha!

BTW, we later upgraded to chicken and ham paste in a jar - I see you can still get these, ha!

phasers · 14-11-2009 03:04PM

Sandwiches? Oh la di da... I got a penguin bar and some tap water.

And that had to do me a week!

jester77 · 14-11-2009 03:06PM

cucumber's are the most vile tasting food known to man, don't know how anyone can eat them *gags*

My name is URL · 14-11-2009 03:07PM

There's only 2 good uses for cucumbers, and eating them isn't one of them

madma · 14-11-2009 03:08PM

the thoughts of one of those sandwiches is making me violently ill

TheZohanS · 14-11-2009 03:09PM

My name is URL wrote: »

There's only 2 good uses for cucumbers, and eating them isn't one of them

And always heat them up first.

slipss · 14-11-2009 03:10PM

jester77 wrote: »

cucumber's are the most vile tasting food known to man, don't know how anyone can eat them *gags*

Man, trust me on this, never eat cactus, the're like cucumber times a million, a super cucumber if you will.

tman · 14-11-2009 03:15PM

I have cucumber in pretty much all of my sandwiches.
Just a plain cucumber sambo would be too plebian for my tastes though... About as posh as posh spice, ha!

peanuthead · 14-11-2009 03:20PM

Ha and you know what my brother never ate them, we would find them in the end of his bag and my mam said to him one day "Why aren't you eating your lunch? Have you an eating disorder?" And he said "No, they're just fcuking horrible!"

I remember liking them though, but posh is about the last word I would ever use to describe them.

RATM · 14-11-2009 03:22PM

They were considered very posh back in the old days. In Wildes 'The Importance of being Earnest' one of the characters remarks that they wouldnt eat any other type of sambo. The play is a satire of english aristocracy at the time.

I dont think they are really considered posh these days though.

citizen_p · 14-11-2009 03:26PM

never liked cucumber,,....too watery....and make things soggy

i like tomatoes though.....but i somtimes takeout all the pips and seeds inside

longshanks · 14-11-2009 03:42PM

jester77 wrote: »

cucumber's are the most vile tasting food known to man, don't know how anyone can eat them *gags*

they just taste a bit watery, no big deal in fairness
most vile tasting food known to man would have to be tripe. the taste, look, texture and smell of carpet boiled in piss

IvySlayer · 14-11-2009 03:45PM

Yeah and now someone's going to say triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones...

phasers · 14-11-2009 03:47PM

IvySlayer wrote: »

Yeah and now someone's going to say triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones...

That's true actually

peanuthead · 14-11-2009 03:47PM

IvySlayer wrote: »

Yeah and now someone's going to say triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones...

Well actually they do

IvySlayer · 14-11-2009 03:47PM

phasers wrote: »

That's true actually

NO IT'S NOT!

:mad:

phasers · 14-11-2009 03:51PM

IvySlayer wrote: »

NO IT'S NOT!

:mad:

Ah but it is

IvySlayer · 14-11-2009 03:59PM

phasers wrote: »

Ah but it is

It simply isn't my boy, girl, whatever you call yourself these days.

rizzee · 14-11-2009 04:06PM

+1 on triangles

Soul Cake Duck · 14-11-2009 04:08PM

longshanks wrote: »

they just taste a bit watery, no big deal in fairness
most vile tasting food known to man would have to be tripe. the taste, look, texture and smell of carpet boiled in piss

Actually only one in five (or something) can get the real taste of cucumber which is vile...to those that can't it’s that water taste you speak of...

Agricola · 14-11-2009 04:12PM

I love a good cucumber...........................(Tee Hee Hee etc etc)

mud · 14-11-2009 04:13PM

I was told that a 'proper' cucumber sambo involved dipping the cucumber in salt before applying to the slice of bread.

am, yeurrrgghh

longshanks · 14-11-2009 04:17PM

Supercroc wrote: »

Actually only one in five (or something) can get the real taste of cucumber which is vile...to those that can't it’s that water taste you speak of...

well i did not know that. todays lesson has been much appreciated, cheers

genericguy · 14-11-2009 04:19PM

cucumber sandwiches are the reason i avoid any work conferences/seminars etc. like the plague. anything science related that offers a sandwich lunch is the devil.

fcuk you, cucumbers.

Daisy03 · 14-11-2009 04:26PM

Supercroc wrote: »

Actually only one in five (or something) can get the real taste of cucumber which is vile...to those that can't it’s that water taste you speak of...

I heard that too. My biology teacher also said that whether or not you can taste it is genetic.

RoyalMarine · 14-11-2009 04:27PM

i love cucumber sambo's.

thick white bread, ham, grated cheese,cucumber and some piccalilli smeared all over it.

sex in a lunch box.

niceirishfella · 14-11-2009 04:35PM

jester77 wrote: »

cucumber's are the most vile tasting food known to man, don't know how anyone can eat them *gags*

no, that would be gerkins, I hate them fookers.:rolleyes:

kowloon · 14-11-2009 04:39PM

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

i love cucumber sambo's.

thick white bread, ham, grated cheese,cucumber and some piccalilli smeared all over it.

sex in a lunch box.

You sir, are worse than Hitler

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GLaDOS · 14-11-2009 06:28PM

Supercroc wrote: »

Actually only one in five (or something) can get the real taste of cucumber which is vile...to those that can't it’s that water taste you speak of...

Mendelian genetics ftw! Don't know of the statistics, but the ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide is one of those things you have or don't. Apparently the phenylthiocarbamide gives it a very bitter taste which is pretty horrible. Just tastes like soggy nothingness to me, hate it all the same.

Some information garnered form wikipedia and therefore subject to being completely wrong

RoyalMarine · 14-11-2009 06:31PM

kowloon wrote: »

You sir, are worse than Hitler .

wow.

GLaDOS · 14-11-2009 06:33PM

kowloon wrote: »

You sir, are worse than Hitler .

And Godwin's law completes its mystical dance

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