#tea sandwich

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Vegan Cucumber Sandwiches

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Animal Crossing Fish Dish Friday - #12

Brought to you by a marine biologist who swears we've covered this before...

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Salmon Sandwich

In ACNH: 1. Fish up a Salmon. 2. Cook on the stove with 1 Salmon and 2 Whole-Wheat Flour.

In Real Life: from Great Britain

Species of Choice: Salmon, although, as I'll explain under the cut, it could be any fish you like.

Other ingredients: Cream Cheese Whole wheat bread Dill Black Pepper Red Onion Lemon

Get the recipe here + serve with tea.

The recipe I gave is for a Salmon Tea Sandwich - a very small type of sandwich to be eaten as a snack during "teatime", as a bit of British culture. The sandwich that Animal Crossing presents looks just like these little, cold sandwiches (and the in-game recipe follows the one in real life as much as it can), so that's the recipe I chose. However, there are all types of fish sandwiches, and you don't have to use smoked salmon, or lox, if you don't want to.

From https://homemadeandyummy.com/smoked-salmon-sandwich

Now, I said above that I swear we have covered this before, and we *kind of* have. This sandwich is basically just like the Salmon Bagel Sandwich - they both use lox, or smoked salmon strips. If you want to read up on the history of lox, you can check out that article. As an American, I count these two dishes as the same damn thing, and ACNH clearly does, too, at least in its English localization. I know other English speakers may not count the Salmon Bagel Sandwich as a true "sandwich", but that's not my problem. It's bread, and lox, and cream cheese, with a few extra ingredients here and there so like...it's the same thing and ACNH could have done something different.

Anyway, there are so many variations of the "fish sandwich" to choose from and utilize your favorite local fish. Hot fish sandwiches that feature a fillet on bread with lettuce is a thing you can try, although I prefer my fish sandwiches mixed up as a salad with mayo. Still, you could argue fish tacos, which are getting increasingly popular, are a version of the fish sandwich (and I wish ACNH had done that instead). There are also fish burgers you can make - just like a hamburger, create fish patties, grill them up, and put them on a bun. There are so many things you can do and fish you can use, the possibilities are endless.

And there you have it! Bon apetite!

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Everything Tea Sandwich Spread Recipe Use this everything-flavored spread on flatbread crackers or toasted pita wedges and top with various fixings for fun, open-faced tea sandwiches.

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Christa's Cucumber Basil Tea Sandwiches Delicate and savory little rounds of rye bread hold a creamy layer of cream cheese and chives, a couple of slices of cucumber, and a fresh basil leaf for the lightest, easiest tea sandwiches.

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Christa's Cucumber Basil Tea Sandwiches For the lightest, simplest tea sandwiches, delicate and savory little rounds of rye bread hold a creamy layer of cream cheese and chives, a few slices of cucumber, and a fresh basil leaf.

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Strawberry Matcha Ice Cream Sandwiches

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I feel like F/P/S was still a pretty weird one, even by Lance's standards.

sorry for (in an ironic twist) not doing much Ride Kamens art now that it's actually started; I've been pretty slow going through it and I feel weird posting about things I'm not caught up on! though I'm. definitely gonna have to set aside some time to actually get through episode 13, after what they posted today. (w-what did they do to my Leon) (NOBODY TELL ME I HAVE TO FIND OUT ON MY OWN) (LEOOOOOOOON)

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On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

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Fifty/fifty with fruity peeble macarons ice cream sandwich

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The Cupperty Ceremony

Every bit of food and drink in both seasons has a metaphorical significance, even if you don't realize it.

Tea is no exception. Its one of the few times an eastern philosophy creeps into Good Omens, but it still meets with a western ideal. It's also intrinsically linked to Aziraphale and his affected British style.

Coffee gets more of a focus in S2, and has a specific meaning around freedom and liberty, whereas tea appears more in S1. But the metaphorical meanings around them are fairly consistent across both seasons, with stereotypes for the British drinking tea and the Americans only drinking coffee put aside.

Lets start with Muriel on the doorstep of the bookshop, at the beginning of S2E3, asking to come in, because its noisy outside.

Aziraphale, after a moment to take in who they are, is the epitome of politeness as he welcomes them inside.

You might think "well, isn't this just Aziraphale being typically Aziraphale?" in this moment, but soon we shall see its a relevant part of a ritual going on here.

The bookshop is noticeably quieter on the inside. There is just the two of them. Aziraphale offers Muriel tea in a fine china cup, with a blue pattern, and gold trim.

Muriel is not sure what to do with it so they just hold it. Aziraphale makes a point of demonstrating what should be done: He tells Muriel the tea is "to drink," then looks at it, sips, and makes both an appreciative expression and sound.

Muriel seems repelled by this, and declares they are just going to look at theirs. Aziraphale patiently, still polite, lets them do so.

Up to this point, there are actually two levels of meta happening at the same time. The first one is a tea ceremony (which I had a go at once before, and got the wrong one!) and the other is about trying to get Muriel to take the first step in "going native."

A tea ceremony always starts with a courteous invitation. The tea is prepared, then served and offered to others. It should be taken in a tranquil, peaceful setting, perhaps in a harmonious natural environment (such as a Garden) and with only a few people at a time (two people is considered a "superior" experience.) The tea ware is important, as it should allow the fragrance of the tea to be appreciated (we have some fine china, Heavenly-coded.) Appreciation of the tea's qualities is undertaken, first with the eyes, then by smell, then tasting. It is considered an art, a process of spiritual enjoyment, a means of cultivating the moral character - and then Crowley bursts into the bookshop with his flirty comment about going by train and breaks the fragile connection Aziraphale had been trying to establish with Muriel.

*sigh* Timing, Crowley! Can't you see I'm in the middle of trying to subvert a fellow angel here?

I was recently reminded that tea and coffee have a connection in GO, in that that they are both linked to the American War of Independence. While the speech that gives us "Give me liberty, or give me death!" conjures the stormy winds of war sounding trouble approaching, the Boston Tea Party was the initial spark of the brewing conflict.

I realize there is a LOT of stuff written about this particular bit of history, and it can get quite political even in these modern times, so let me frame it in a Good Omens frame of reference if you aren't familiar with it - the colonists in the New World were upset at how they were being ruled from afar by the British and staged a small protest about some new laws imposed on them by dumping ship-loads of valuable tea leaves (a daily consumable pleasure people had become hooked on) into Boston Harbor on the night of 16th December 1773. To disguise themselves they dressed themselves as indigenous people, or "native Americans" as one might have said. This was just the beginning of further rebellion that led to war a few years later.

So here is another reason Aziraphale offers tea to Muriel, and not cocoa; he can see how fascinated they are with with everything Earthly around them, and he hopes to ignite a spark of rebellion in them, too, by introducing them to the more civilized pleasures (*ahem*) that he knows and enjoys so well.

While there is little tea to be seen in S2, there is plenty to be seen in S1. Perhaps the most prominent one for this discussion occurs right near the beginning, when Gabriel surprises Aziraphale in the sushi restaurant in S1E1.

Aziraphale offers to tea to Gabriel, and Gabriel shuns it. He, like most of the angels we meet, have no real interest in Earth. It's "gross." Ah, well. He gets to change his mind in S2.

So where else do we see tea in S1?

The Four Horsepeople: War orders four teas, one black, and a cheese sandwich in the diner where they all meet up together for the first time on Earth. We don't know who the sandwich is for, but I'm going to guess its for Famine. Reasons below, with Shadwell. (Cheese and tea make a nice savoury pair for a snack, if you haven't tried it. I'm partial to tea with cheese and crackers on the side from time to time.)

The Tibetan Tunnelers were on tea break from digging tunnels all over the Earth when we meet them, where they mention they were transported into the tunnels when they themselves stopped for tea back in their real lives on the surface.

Shadwell's infamously sweet tea, with either nine sugars or condensed milk, needs a mention as well, as it appears several times. Shadwell is an Aziraphale parallel-character, living on the fringes of society and starving for attention, even though he makes feeble swipes at Madam Tracey's attempts to care for him. The sugar represents the amount of care or "sweetening up" he needs.

When he first meets Newt he gets the young man to buy him a tea and a packet of cheese and onion crisps. Remember the cheese sandwich War ordered for Famine? A packet of cheese flavoured crisps is a parallel here. Newt has turned up and finally given someone Shadwell someone to sink his teeth into.

Finally, we need to return to Crowley - its coffee, as black as his soul for him, please, and extra strong (six shots is for the number of Hell.)

Because he's already "gone native," just like Aziraphale, and he wants to maintain his freedom. He's left the Garden, and Heaven, behind him, and he'll do anything to keep it that way, thank you.

I'd like to thank my mutual and other food meta writer @vidavalor for discussing some of this off-list some time ago. We mostly see things the same way, I believe, but one must tread one's own path sometimes. They have some different ideas around some of this, but I'll let them say it in their own words.

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Chickpea “Tuna” Salad Cucumber Stacks (Vegan & Gluten-Free)

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(From X/Twitter) HVFankidWeek 2024

DAY 1: Daddy dinner date.

Zestial having dinner with his daughter Elizabeth Odile Carmine. With sandwiches and tea of course.

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I really do believe that I could be friends with Wiggly. We’d go for afternoon tea together - he’s paying, he clearly has money - and I’ll eat tiny cheese sandwiches and drink Diet Coke from a huge glass as he bemoans his latest failure, but little does he know that I’ve put the lenses of my actual glasses into spy glasses that are recording his every word, and I’m reporting back to PEIP as soon as our tea is finished. Blinky knows this but I’ve bribed him with a Bridgerton marathon where I will also eat tiny cheese sandwiches - we’ve themed afternoon tea to the show as well. And what do all of these encounters have in common? Tiny cheese sandwiches. That’s how we’ll defeat the Lords in Black, write this down.

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