>What REALLY goes on a cucumber sandwich? Bread, mayo, and cucumbers and salt and pepper? Are they supposed to be toasted or just on fresh bread?

Well the ones we made on the ships were just v. thin slices of cucumber on buttered bread. Personally, I'd have black pepper and mayo in them (now - not back then) as I put that on practically every sandwich. I can't imagine WHY you'd toast the bread for such a sarnie.

>We eat that at my house but then we also have tomato sandwiches as well in the summer. My daughter and her friends love fried bologna sandwiches (yuck yuck yuck!!!)

I thought Bologna was a bombed Italian city from WW II!

Over here we don't come across all the Italian sausage types like you do over there: bologna, baloney, pastrami etc.
Salami yes (esp. on pizzas). Sure we have deli's (even one in our village) but not many, and it's more a yuppie thing over here.

To be honest I had my 1st patrami sandwich ever a few months ago (really good!)

I can't see how frying them can help the flavour - I'm ambivalent about fried chorizo, for example.

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