The best cucumber sandwich.

[stephan]

Ah but Costal is an artist-he has to suffer for his art. Not sure a self portrait taking a piss is my idea of great art but then again a pile of bricks sold for a lot.

Performance Art??


Costal pees on the hour to this??

[everso]

Jul 27, 2009 17:39:52 GMT stephan said:

Ah but Costal is an artist-he has to suffer for his art. Not sure a self portrait taking a piss is my idea of great art but then again a pile of bricks sold for a lot.

Performance Art??


Costal pees on the hour to this??

Good lord, I don't remember that one Stephan and I'm pretty sure I've never heard it!

[stephan]

Well I am of a `certain age`??

[everso]

Jul 27, 2009 18:05:00 GMT stephan said:

Well I am of a `certain age`??

Well, so am I! According to Youtube that was made in 1967, when I was 17. I don't remember it at all. I am worried.

[housesparrow]

Jul 27, 2009 9:51:29 GMT Patrick said:

I used to have a Country Life Butter Man Badge too! I got it for tasting cheese in the Sainsbury's Savacentre in Gillingham when I was about 9. It was a dead cool badge too, cos the outline on it was raised and I could print out as many little butter men as I wanted using my printing press!

Patrick, this is getting silly. You lived round the corner from where I was born and used to live in East Sussex, and now I find that you were in Gillingham, where I spent 10 happy years.

[stephan]

when I was 17. I don't remember it at all. I am worried.

You know that bloke who offered you a strange smelling ciggie??

Last chance??

[stephan]

And--------

[stephan]

But then today`s yoofs think they are cool??

With age comes wisdom,well a bit slower and less hair:-)

[mathoslerhymer]

Getting back on topic...
The traditional cucumber sandwich is composed of paper-thin slices of cucumber placed between two thin slices of crustless, lightly buttered white bread.

As the thinness of the bread is a point of pride in the kitchen, a dense-textured white Pullman loaf is cut with a wide-bladed knife, which guides the cut; daylight should pass through the resulting fine pores. The cucumbers, if sliced thin enough, should permit a newspaper column-heading to be read through one. The peel of the cucumber is either removed or scored lengthwise with a fork before the cucumber is sliced, and the slices are dried gently with a paper towel before use. The slices of bread are carefully buttered all the way to the edges in the thinnest coating, which is only to protect the bread from becoming damp with cucumber juice, and the slices of cucumber, which have been dashed with salt and lemon juice, are placed in the sandwich just before serving in order to prevent the sandwich from becoming damp enough to moisten the eater's fingers. The crusts of the bread are cut away cleanly and the sandwich sliced diagonally twice, creating four small triangular tea sandwiches

[riotgrrl]

Jul 27, 2009 19:28:52 GMT mathoslerhymer said:

Getting back on topic...
The traditional cucumber sandwich is composed of paper-thin slices of cucumber placed between two thin slices of crustless, lightly buttered white bread.

As the thinness of the bread is a point of pride in the kitchen, a dense-textured white Pullman loaf is cut with a wide-bladed knife, which guides the cut; daylight should pass through the resulting fine pores. The cucumbers, if sliced thin enough, should permit a newspaper column-heading to be read through one. The peel of the cucumber is either removed or scored lengthwise with a fork before the cucumber is sliced, and the slices are dried gently with a paper towel before use. The slices of bread are carefully buttered all the way to the edges in the thinnest coating, which is only to protect the bread from becoming damp with cucumber juice, and the slices of cucumber, which have been dashed with salt and lemon juice, are placed in the sandwich just before serving in order to prevent the sandwich from becoming damp enough to moisten the eater's fingers. The crusts of the bread are cut away cleanly and the sandwich sliced diagonally twice, creating four small triangular tea sandwiches

Sounds like you do it professionally!!!

[Patrick]

Jul 27, 2009 18:55:49 GMT housesparrow said:

Patrick, this is getting silly. You lived round the corner from where I was born and used to live in East Sussex, and now I find that you were in Gillingham, where I spent 10 happy years.

As I recall, that was a one off visit, but my Grandparents lived nearby. My Uncle still lives there and Best Beloved has relations all over there.

Cheapest houses in Kent there these days. Poor old Gillingham.

[Patrick]

Jul 27, 2009 19:28:52 GMT mathoslerhymer said:

Getting back on topic...
The traditional cucumber sandwich is composed of paper-thin slices of cucumber placed between two thin slices of crustless, lightly buttered white bread.

As the thinness of the bread is a point of pride in the kitchen, a dense-textured white Pullman loaf is cut with a wide-bladed knife, which guides the cut; daylight should pass through the resulting fine pores. The cucumbers, if sliced thin enough, should permit a newspaper column-heading to be read through one. The peel of the cucumber is either removed or scored lengthwise with a fork before the cucumber is sliced, and the slices are dried gently with a paper towel before use. The slices of bread are carefully buttered all the way to the edges in the thinnest coating, which is only to protect the bread from becoming damp with cucumber juice, and the slices of cucumber, which have been dashed with salt and lemon juice, are placed in the sandwich just before serving in order to prevent the sandwich from becoming damp enough to moisten the eater's fingers. The crusts of the bread are cut away cleanly and the sandwich sliced diagonally twice, creating four small triangular tea sandwiches

Outrageous Sandwich Porn! Love it!

[artistlily]

Here is a true story. I had a mate who had this amazing boyfriend. Artist and maniac. I was at their house and he was hungry. He went and got a tin of spam and a white loaf of that horrid supermarket pap, and ate them both together. Not in sandwich form. He held the spam like an apple and bit lumps of it off, then did the same with a load of bread. Very interesting to watch.

[Patrick]

I do that with cheese and bread. Stems back from when I was young and we'd go into town on a Saturday morning, call in at the bakers and buy a fresh large bloomer and also pick up a huge lump of cheddar or some such cheese. Invariably the smell of the new loaf would be too much and we'd end up picking at that - and the cheese on the way home!

[mathoslerhymer]

Spam is ok grilled/fried in some decent bread, and some mustard, but raw it's not nice, Very salty! I read a blog by this US husband/wife team of competition eaters, and they cited the Spam eating comp as the worst food they had ate in competitions , I used do as your friend's bf, when I was a lad and mum was'nt looking.

[Deleted]

I eat everythink out of the packaging it comes in- rather like an urban fox scavenging through rubbish bins-whilst still in the supermarket.

[Patrick]

Well! Somebody had to.....

[motorist]

Jul 28, 2009 14:55:41 GMT Patrick said:

Well! Somebody had to.....

Since sin posted the carrot museum, have a link to the American spam museum
www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2126

[jean]

I remember how kids used to hollow out a loaf and fill it with chips.

(Perhaps they still do...)

[Patrick]

Aug 12, 2009 10:50:40 GMT jean said:

I remember how kids used to hollow out a loaf and fill it with chips.

(Perhaps they still do...)

I used to get a fresh white roll - hollow that out and stuff it with chips! Yum.

I suppose by contrast, you could call it the "diet" version!