Cucumber sandwiches
in the interview scene, the sandwiches that Hanna makes don't look that great to by honest and i don't think I'd eat them.
http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dodgycucumbersandwichesvj5.png
would anybody eat them?
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sometimes the soggy texture of food really turns people off.
and the colour other times, regardless of the taste.
I like cucumbers.
please excuse me while I go make a soggy cucumber sandwich. LOL !!!
"google it if you dont think so ...."
All about cucumber sandwiches...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_sandwich
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That's brilliant! Someone actually took the time to create a Wikipedia entry for cucumber sandwiches!
Here's my rewrite of the artice; it's a little shorter...
Some bread + slices of cucumber inside = cucumber sandwich.
A little more succinct, I think! Personally I find them fairly bland. I like cucumber in salad, but on its own, they are just rather tasteless and tend to make an already bland sandwich into a bland, soggy sandwich!
I can't believe I'm discussing cucumber sandwiches on a film site!! :)
it's really not so strange to be discussing cucumber sandwiches on a film site. Nothing is mentioned in the film (or any film really) without some purpose. The sandwiches are symbolic, they point out (as so many things in the movie do) the class distinction between Clay and Whale. Whether you, or anyone, like them or not don't mean a damn thing.
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I get what you mean, but I've personally never understood why cucumbers ARE a class thing. They aren't particularly expensive, or exotic! Caviar costs a fortune, so I can understand that being a "class food", likewise Champagne and salmon (although I must be terribly working class as I can't stand any of 'em!). Paying £100 for a piddling jar of caviar is definitely a sign of being loaded.. buying a cucumber for a quid in Sainsburys just doesn't have the same connotations for me! :)
shareIt's a class thing because cucumbers are not nutritive at all. So lower classes who only would have so much money to eat, would go for nutritive and "useful" food -> The one that allows to work in the mine, or the factory and do hard labour.
On the contrary, the upper class could eat all day whatever they wanted to - so they ate cucumber sandwiches at high tea so that their appetite wouldn't be spoiled for dinner.
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Hadn't thought of it that way. I suppose it's a remnant of those times which has kind of stuck, and is still perceived as posh, despite the fact they are now cheap. They are made up of something like 95% water, or possibly slightly more, so they definitely wouldn't impact on an appetite! Personally it's one food item I can live without.. bloody slimy and tasteless I think! Mind you, at least they aren't brussel sprouts; whoever picked the first one of those and decided it made a good meal should have been battered to death with a cucumber!
shareDon't forget the butter !
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Don't forget the butter !I have to admit---buttered bread and cucuber slices sounds wonderful! And toasting the bread a little would remedy the sogginess. Perfect! I think I'll have one, yummy!!
Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize! share
I have never heard of anyone toasting the bread ! I think ,in England at least, that it might be considered blasphemy. (But go on. Let me know how it turns out.)
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