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Cucumber sandwiches WTF??

  • 14-11-2009 03:01PM
    #1
    peanuthead
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    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!


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  • #2
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


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

    And that had to do me a week!


  • #3
    jester77
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    cucumber's are the most vile tasting food known to man, don't know how anyone can eat them *gags*


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,261 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


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


  • #5
    madma
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    the thoughts of one of those sandwiches is making me violently ill


  • #6
    TheZohanS
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    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. ;)


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  • #7
    slipss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭slipss


    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.


  • #8
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    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!


  • #9
    peanuthead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    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.


  • #10
    RATM
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    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.


  • #11
    citizen_p
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    never liked cucumber,,....too watery....and make things soggy

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


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  • #12
    longshanks
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    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


  • #13
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


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


  • #14
    phasers
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Yeah and now someone's going to say triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones...
    That's true actually


  • #15
    peanuthead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


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


    Well actually they do


  • #16
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    phasers wrote: »
    That's true actually

    NO IT'S NOT!

    :mad:


  • #17
    phasers
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    NO IT'S NOT!

    :mad:
    Ah but it is


  • #18
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    phasers wrote: »
    Ah but it is

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


  • #19
    rizzee
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    +1 on triangles


  • #20
    Soul Cake Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭Soul Cake Duck


    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...


  • #21
    Agricola
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    I love a good cucumber...........................(Tee Hee Hee etc etc)


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  • #22
    mud
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    I was told that a 'proper' cucumber sambo involved dipping the cucumber in salt before applying to the slice of bread.

    am, yeurrrgghh


  • #23
    longshanks
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    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


  • #24
    genericguy
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    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.


  • #25
    Daisy03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Daisy03


    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.


  • #26
    RoyalMarine
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    i love cucumber sambo's.

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

    sex in a lunch box.


  • #27
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    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:


  • #28
    kowloon
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    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 ;).


  • #29
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    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

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #30
    RoyalMarine
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    kowloon wrote: »
    You sir, are worse than Hitler ;).

    wow.


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  • #31
    GLaDOS
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    kowloon wrote: »
    You sir, are worse than Hitler ;).
    And Godwin's law completes its mystical dance

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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