Gherkins and were in business.Mimi wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 6:04pmUnless it's pickled, cucumbers suck.revbob wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 5:56pmI find cucumbers dreadful on their own, bread and butter cant save them.Marky Dread wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 4:52pmYep 2 slices of bread and butter with sliced cucumber. Tastes like shit. Please take pity on me and send some meatballs.revbob wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 4:44pmCucumber sandwiches? Tell me this isn't just sliced cucumbers on some sort of breadMarky Dread wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 4:31pm
Colourful hats, strawberries and cream, ice cream and jelly, cups of tea, cucumber sandwiches and wave at the nonce as he drives by.
Hey limeys
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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My sentiments exactly!Mimi wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 6:04pmUnless it's pickled, cucumbers suck.revbob wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 5:56pmI find cucumbers dreadful on their own, bread and butter cant save them.Marky Dread wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 4:52pmYep 2 slices of bread and butter with sliced cucumber. Tastes like shit. Please take pity on me and send some meatballs.revbob wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 4:44pmCucumber sandwiches? Tell me this isn't just sliced cucumbers on some sort of breadMarky Dread wrote: ↑07 May 2023, 4:31pm
Colourful hats, strawberries and cream, ice cream and jelly, cups of tea, cucumber sandwiches and wave at the nonce as he drives by.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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I love cucumber.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Cucumber is fine as a supplementary addition to a sandwich. A reliable cast member, but never the star.
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As a kid, I was mad about cucumbers. Used to gnaw my way through them like others would eat apples. Then I was round my Dad's flat in Streatham making my way through my third cucumber of the day and, watching the film Flubber, rented on VHS from Blockbuster, I puked green vomit in a spray all over the living room. I've only been able to eat them, in tiny doses, again for the last two years or so.
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I believe the upper class fetish for cucumbers started with the Raj where they were favoured for being a colder, more refreshing vegetable in a repressively hot climate (hence "cool as a cucumber") and from there it was brought back to the old country and became a symbol as much as anything else.
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Between that and tea*, the English (that is, the elite) have a thing for deeply claiming as their own stuff not native to the island.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:43amI believe the upper class fetish for cucumbers started with the Raj where they were favoured for being a colder, more refreshing vegetable in a repressively hot climate (hence "cool as a cucumber") and from there it was brought back to the old country and became a symbol as much as anything else.
*And, like, lots and lots of land and wealth.
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I think the idea of sticking cucumber slices between slices of white starch is most definitely a British invention, though. I can just imagine the conversations in the officers' and gentlemen's kitchens as the native servants prepared these very unusual delicacies.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:47amBetween that and tea*, the English (that is, the elite) have a thing for deeply claiming as their own stuff not native to the island.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:43amI believe the upper class fetish for cucumbers started with the Raj where they were favoured for being a colder, more refreshing vegetable in a repressively hot climate (hence "cool as a cucumber") and from there it was brought back to the old country and became a symbol as much as anything else.
*And, like, lots and lots of land and wealth.
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Something along the lines of "How the hell are these pasty morons in charge?"Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:54amI think the idea of sticking cucumber slices between slices of white starch is most definitely a British invention, though. I can just imagine the conversations in the officers' and gentlemen's kitchens as the native servants prepared these very unusual delicacies.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:47amBetween that and tea*, the English (that is, the elite) have a thing for deeply claiming as their own stuff not native to the island.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:43amI believe the upper class fetish for cucumbers started with the Raj where they were favoured for being a colder, more refreshing vegetable in a repressively hot climate (hence "cool as a cucumber") and from there it was brought back to the old country and became a symbol as much as anything else.
*And, like, lots and lots of land and wealth.
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Oh yikes.Silent Majority wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 6:52amAs a kid, I was mad about cucumbers. Used to gnaw my way through them like others would eat apples. Then I was round my Dad's flat in Streatham making my way through my third cucumber of the day and, watching the film Flubber, rented on VHS from Blockbuster, I puked green vomit in a spray all over the living room. I've only been able to eat them, in tiny doses, again for the last two years or so.
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I have little doubt that the great Sepoy Mutiny of the mid 19th century was at least partly inspired by the rise of the cumcumber sandwich.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:00amSomething along the lines of "How the hell are these pasty morons in charge?"Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:54amI think the idea of sticking cucumber slices between slices of white starch is most definitely a British invention, though. I can just imagine the conversations in the officers' and gentlemen's kitchens as the native servants prepared these very unusual delicacies.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:47amBetween that and tea*, the English (that is, the elite) have a thing for deeply claiming as their own stuff not native to the island.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:43amI believe the upper class fetish for cucumbers started with the Raj where they were favoured for being a colder, more refreshing vegetable in a repressively hot climate (hence "cool as a cucumber") and from there it was brought back to the old country and became a symbol as much as anything else.
*And, like, lots and lots of land and wealth.
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I'd love to learn that the English were referred to as Cukes.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:07amI have little doubt that the great Sepoy Mutiny of the mid 19th century was at least partly inspired by the rise of the cumcumber sandwich.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:00amSomething along the lines of "How the hell are these pasty morons in charge?"Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:54amI think the idea of sticking cucumber slices between slices of white starch is most definitely a British invention, though. I can just imagine the conversations in the officers' and gentlemen's kitchens as the native servants prepared these very unusual delicacies.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:47amBetween that and tea*, the English (that is, the elite) have a thing for deeply claiming as their own stuff not native to the island.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:43amI believe the upper class fetish for cucumbers started with the Raj where they were favoured for being a colder, more refreshing vegetable in a repressively hot climate (hence "cool as a cucumber") and from there it was brought back to the old country and became a symbol as much as anything else.
*And, like, lots and lots of land and wealth.
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Definitely preferable than cucks anywayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:15amI'd love to learn that the English were referred to as Cukes.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:07amI have little doubt that the great Sepoy Mutiny of the mid 19th century was at least partly inspired by the rise of the cumcumber sandwich.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:00amSomething along the lines of "How the hell are these pasty morons in charge?"Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:54amI think the idea of sticking cucumber slices between slices of white starch is most definitely a British invention, though. I can just imagine the conversations in the officers' and gentlemen's kitchens as the native servants prepared these very unusual delicacies.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:47am
Between that and tea*, the English (that is, the elite) have a thing for deeply claiming as their own stuff not native to the island.
*And, like, lots and lots of land and wealth.
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And that, folks, is how you do thread mutation.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:18amDefinitely preferable than cucks anywayDr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:15amI'd love to learn that the English were referred to as Cukes.Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:07amI have little doubt that the great Sepoy Mutiny of the mid 19th century was at least partly inspired by the rise of the cumcumber sandwich.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 8:00amSomething along the lines of "How the hell are these pasty morons in charge?"Low Down Low wrote: ↑08 May 2023, 7:54am
I think the idea of sticking cucumber slices between slices of white starch is most definitely a British invention, though. I can just imagine the conversations in the officers' and gentlemen's kitchens as the native servants prepared these very unusual delicacies.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft