White and un-toasted. Add the mearest smear of mayonnaise, a hint of salt and white pepper, cut the crusts off, and then cut each round into three rectangles to make finger sandwiches.
White bread, untoasted, thin sliver of marg, feed them to your auntie with weak tea in a china mug and, for dessert, get out Mr Kipling's French Fancies or a couple of slices of Battenberg. Make yourself a few ham and cheese butties with a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch and a glass of crap pop (probably lemonade).
I was like this when I was younger. Absolutely hated them. Then my taste receptor that made them disgusting just kind of switched off gradually over time. Apparently this can happen from middle age onward. Maybe wait a while and try again someday. They're also better with salt.
I'm approaching middle age and still feel this way.
I've never actually found them disgusting, just that they seem to suck the flavour out of anything that's next to them. So many nice experiences eating food have been lessened by including cucumber.
That basically ties in to your last point. They might be fine with enough salt, but they are almost never served that way.
Here's how you make a cucumber sandwich. Get a French baguette, cut it in half like a hoagie, finely dice cucumber and mix it with shredded carrots and diced jalapeno before quick pickling with cilantro, salt, pepper, garlic and lime juice. Let those sit for like 10 minutes. Take some chicken and marinate it with soy sauce, garlic, ginger, etc. Broil that shit, shred it up, stuff into sandwich and top with pickled veg
Finish by cutting some mayonnaise with sriracha and a bit of lime juice until it's drizzling consistency (salt and pepper to taste), and drizzle over the top of sandwich, top with more cilantro
That's a bit like saying: you make a cucumber sandwich by crisping up some duck, steam some pancakes, put some duck on a pancake, then cut up cucumber and spring onions to sprinkle on the duck before using hoisin sauce as the paste to stick your rolled up pancakes together.
If you went into an English tea room for afternoon tea and they served you that monstrosity and claimed it was a cucumber sandwich, you'd be perfectly within your rights to burn the entire place to the ground and not a single judge in the country would convict you.
A baguette is bread, a sandwich is bread with stuff on it. Seeing as I described a baguette laden with filling, I'm pretty sure I described a sandwich, hoss
Can you guys just ban me from this "feddit" shithole, yall are terminally obtuse and unfunny