Cucmber sandwiches, gardening and sex.

[AthenasFury]

It is in this thread. All others are open for business.

Understood. I will move my search elsewhere.
(Who knew people were so picky about certain entrees with their sex?)

 

[Guest]

 

[oggbashan]

I'm assuming its a historical thing...something to do with hygiene maybe, from the mandhandling by the bakers.....who knows. I'm thinking a bit like the Cornish Pastie crust being made originally specifically as a way for the tin miners in Cornwall to hold their pastie with grimy hands while down the mine. They ate the pastie (one half meat and one half fruit - a complete meal in one package), and threw the grime smeared crust away.

Actually I don't really know.

Ogg????

It is an upper class thing from before sliced and wrapped bread.

The crust would be handled by the baker, the shop assistant and the delivery boy.

The Butler, or perhaps the Cook, would remove the crust as a last operation just before the sandwich was to be eaten.

The quality of the bread and the freshness of the cucumber are critical.

Good quality white unsliced bread should be freshly bought from a local baker, or preferably baked in your own kitchen that day by your Cook, not that sold cheaply by Walmart or their UK equivalent Asda, and should only be sliced as the sandwich is made. If made on the premises by your own staff the quality of the bread should be taken for granted, or else find another Cook.

The cucumber, if not grown on your country estate and delivered by the gardener fresh from the cold frame, should have been acquired early that morning from Covent Garden market.

Cucumber sandwiches were recommended when entertaining elderly aunts to tea.

Why?

Because elderly aunts were likely to be deficient in teeth and could eat a crustless cucumber sandwich decorously... See Wodehouse stories, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Og

 

[matriarch]

It is an upper class thing from before sliced and wrapped bread.

The crust would be handled by the baker, the shop assistant and the delivery boy.

The Butler, or perhaps the Cook, would remove the crust as a last operation just before the sandwich was to be eaten.

The quality of the bread and the freshness of the cucumber are critical.

Good quality white unsliced bread should be freshly bought from a local baker, or preferably baked in your own kitchen that day by your Cook, not that sold cheaply by Walmart or their UK equivalent Asda, and should only be sliced as the sandwich is made. If made on the premises by your own staff the quality of the bread should be taken for granted, or else find another Cook.

The cucumber, if not grown on your country estate and delivered by the gardener fresh from the cold frame, should have been acquired early that morning from Covent Garden market.

Cucumber sandwiches were recommended when entertaining elderly aunts to tea.

Why?

Because elderly aunts were likely to be deficient in teeth and could eat a crustless cucumber sandwich decorously... See Wodehouse stories, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Og

Woohooo!
I got it right.
Thank you.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

*kicks down the door*

I'm here for the SEX!

 

[matriarch]

*kicks down the door*

I'm here for the SEX!

Well, good afternoon to you too.

Here. Have a cucumber sandwich.

How's your garden doing??

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Well, good afternoon to you too.

Here. Have a cucumber sandwich.

How's your garden doing??

Yarden's fine.
No thanks, not hungry.
Let's get naked!

p.s. There will be swimming this weekend. Come prepared.

 

[matriarch]

Yarden's fine.
No thanks, not hungry.
Let's get naked!

p.s. There will be swimming this weekend. Come prepared.

I don't swim.
Live with it.

 

[impressive]

*kicks down the door*

I'm here for the SEX!

Now you're talkin'

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I don't swim.
Live with it.

You can wade. We're not picky.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Now you're talkin'

Where should we begin, lovely?

 

[impressive]

Where should we begin, lovely?

At the ankles, of course.

 

[minsue]

You can wade. We're not picky.

She wants a little kid wading pool to set up in the living room. (and I have to keep being the big meany and say 'no' we're trying to get RID of stuff, dammit!)

 

[lucky-E-leven]

At the ankles, of course.

My pleasure. (At first, anyway...)

 

[lucky-E-leven]

She wants a little kid wading pool to set up in the living room. (and I have to keep being the big meany and say 'no' we're trying to get RID of stuff, dammit!)

We swam last night. It had been 105 all day. The water wasn't cold when we got in, but neither was it scalding. The nice thing is, once wet, any air movement was oh so cool and refreshing. It was fun.

 

[Guest]

She wants a little kid wading pool to set up in the living room. (and I have to keep being the big meany and say 'no' we're trying to get RID of stuff, dammit!)

look at the opportunity you are missing for:
canola nude wrestling
jello
pudding
the idears are endless.

 

[minsue]

We swam last night. It had been 105 all day. The water wasn't cold when we got in, but neither was it scalding. The nice thing is, once wet, any air movement was oh so cool and refreshing. It was fun.

Ahhhhh....evaporation...

 

[minsue]

look at the opportunity you are missing for:
canola nude wrestling
jello
pudding
the idears are endless.

They'll have to wait til we get back to england, I guess. *le sigh*

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Ahhhhh....evaporation...

You're swimming this weekend, dammit!

 

[lucky-E-leven]

They'll have to wait til we get back to england, I guess. *le sigh*

That outta get you in good with the neighbors.

 

[minsue]

That outta get you in good with the neighbors.

After our wedding reception in the yarden, I'm sure they'll be expecting just about anything from our house.

 

[matriarch]

After our wedding reception in the yarden, I'm sure they'll be expecting just about anything from our house.

And we WILL be serving cucumber sandwiches.
With the crusts cut off.

 

[minsue]

And we WILL be serving cucumber sandwiches.
With the crusts cut off.

The hell we will!