This Peanut Butter Cucumber Sandwich may not be your typical lunch fare, but one bite of this peanut butter and cucumber combination and you might just be hooked! It will be perfect for tea sandwiches, too!
Yeah, I know. It’s weird. BUT, it’s the latest craze that’s sweeping the nation ~ Peanut Butter Cucumber Sandwiches!!!
It is, believe me!! Or maybe it’s a craze in another part of the world and it just hasn’t made its way completely over here yet.
Ok, well, I can dream, can’t I? Wouldn’t that be neat though if I started a fad, trend, whatever-you-want-to-call-it-thinga-ma-jigger? But I can’t be credited with inventing the thing because it was introduced to me at horse camp when I was…good grief, I don’t even remember how old I was ~ I must have been 12 or 13 or so.
So the story goes like this and it’s one of my more interesting experiences, I must say. One of my mother’s best friends had three children and her oldest who was about 3 years younger than me rode horses and took lessons through this woman.
This woman also had three children and at their home, they raised rabbits and chickens, etc. One summer my mother and her friend signed us up for horse camp, but really I’m thinking they were ponies. Aaah, I don’t remember.
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What I do remember is that the dang white one, whatever the heck it was, started taking off on me as we were riding a trail through the woods and scared the living bejeezus out of me! I couldn’t stop the thing and I was screaming, brushing up against tree branches, being jostled in the saddle and terrified of being thrown from the gosh darn four-legged creature!
My screaming, of course, must have really pleased the animal. And I KNOW he sensed my fright because he just wouldn’t stop trotting, cantering (ooh, see, I learned something that week that stuck with me!) or running full throttle. Needless to say, I haven’t been on a horse, pony, donkey, or otherwise, since.
Except for the ones that are stationary and move around in a circle to music. You got it, a carousel. Something else I remember about the camp was the food that was served. The mother made some pretty darn good bars made out of chocolate chips, cheerios, white cake mix, and condensed milk, and now I can’t remember the recipe.
We also went out to the backyard one night to pick out our dinner. That didn’t make me too happy and I REALLY didn’t like seeing Peter Cottontail hopping around all footloose and fancy-free in his cage just before…well, you know. It was disturbing and I was afraid to eat that night, but it’s true what they say,… it tastes a little like chicken.
One of the better memories of that week, or maybe it wasn’t a whole week, but it sure felt like it, was the sandwiches we were served for lunch. And yes, I turned my nose up at them, too, when I first heard the mother tell us what was on them…peanut butter and cucumber.
What?!
Peanut butter, ok. And we all know that peanut butter goes with jelly. JUST jelly! Cucumbers??? No, just peanut butter and cucumbers, no jelly. Be real. NOBODY puts cucumbers on their peanut butter sandwiches. That’s just plain gross! (I never said that to her because I was NEVER one to mouth off to my elders. Kick a boy in the shin with my hard toed saddle shoes, yes, but never disrespect an adult.
Mom would slap me across the face, she would.) Anyway, I love cucumber and peanut butter, but separately, NOT together. Good grief! If I don’t eat this, I’ll be hungry, so I guess I’ll try it. I don’t think it will kill me. At least I hope it won’t…And I have to say,…that will be revealed after the recipe. 😉
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Peanut Butter Cucumber Sandwich
Ingredients
- 2 slices potato bread or your favorite bread
- 2-4 tablespoons creamy peanut butter or crunchy
- 8-10 slices unpeeled cucumber
Instructions
- Place both slices of bread on a plate. Spread each with the desired amount of peanut butter.
- Evenly distribute the cucumber slices on top of one slice of bread covered with peanut butter.
- Take the slice of bread with just the peanut butter and place it peanut butter side down on top of the one covered in cucumbers. Slice in half.
Nutrition
I rate everything I make on a scale of 1-4 and this Peanut Butter & Cucumber Sandwich earned 3 1/2 rolling pins.
While I realize this sandwich may not be for everyone, it may be for someone and that person may be YOU! Heck, even my kids look at me like I have two heads whenever I put this sandwich together. You’d think that since I’d been a kid when I first had it that my kids would have grown up on the stuff.
Not the case. They think the combination is just plain old weird. Kinda like their mother, I guess.
I like this sandwich because you get the great taste of peanut butter with the cool, crisp crunch of the cucumber. And it’s good for you!
Need some more peanut butter in your life? Well here are a few recipes to solve that craving!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
13 Minute 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars
It really is quite tasty and you KNOW I wouldn’t post it if it weren’t because…I just ain’t that a way! PLEASE, just try it. It could be your kids’ new favorite sandwich in their lunch box. And you could come out looking like a genius!
Can you imagine, “Mom, this is GREAT!! How did you think of this??!!” And then their friends at school will be begging to switch sandwiches and before you know it we have our Peanut Butter & Cucumber Sandwich taking over the nation. It will happen. And it all starts with a knife and two slices of bread.
If you try it, please let me know what you think and how far we’ve gotten with the taste that’s sweeping the nation. 😉
This sounds good – I’ll get some fresh cucumbers this weekend so I can try it. Thank you for being brave and posting this recipe!
When I was younger, my mom had gotten a new babysitter for my brother and me. One of her jobs was to make lunch for us. My mom had left her a note with options for our lunches. For me she wrote that I liked either turkey or cheese, and for my brother, he liked either peanut butter or ham. Well, something got lost in translation, because I ended up with turkey AND cheese (which is fine), and my brother got ham AND peanut butter. Ew! So, compared to that, peanut butter and cucumber sounds perfectly normal LOL. I’ll have to try it out!
Oooh, Dana, peanut butter and ham sounds so disgusting!!! LOL!
Did your brother eat it? I love that story, thanks for sharing!
thanks for posting.
Ok I have to say it does sound weird but I love peanut butter and love cucumber so I am gonna try it when I get dome cucumber!!
Thanks for sharing!
I love peanut butter & cucumber sandwiches! I always spread a little sambal sauce on top of the peanut butter to spice things up. It’s delicious!
Man why can’t I post..here we go sgain
This sandwhich is nothing new at all here in canada I have bern eating in since i was 18..now 38.
I was introduced to it my a roomate much older thsn I at the time.but here we add miracle whp (not mayo) on one side. Pb the other with some salt and pepper.seems odd but very very good.itd got that sweet/salty taste with a bit of zing.cukes help with pb not sticking to mouth
I grew up on peanut butter and cuc sandwiches. it was my grandfather’s favorite!
My Japanese mother used to make these for our school when we were kids. A lot of the other kids thought they were a bit weird! Lol. I’ve taken them a step further by adding either sour cream, cream cheese, or yogurt!
I meant school lunch box.
Ooh, I love the idea of adding the cream cheese! Will have to try that next time!!
Thanks for the comment!
Cucumber,onion,and peanut butter is better.
Ooh, thanks, Robert! I’ll have to try that one next!
Peanut Butter, Ham and Cucumber sandwiches are lovely been eating them for years
Ooh, Zoe, now that sounds interesting with the ham. Will have to try that next. Thanks!
When I was little, my parents always made peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches (amongst others) for the whole family when we made lunch for going on a long car journey. We all loved them and there were never any left as it always seemed like a perfectly normal combination to us. I didn’t know that it was considered weird until I was at uni, when all my friends said that they’d never heard of such a sandwich! Safe to say I converted a few of them to my way of thinking once they tried it 😀
Katie, I’m SO glad I’m not alone!! Everyone, including my kids have looked at me as if I had two heads when I talked about them. No one’s been brave enough to try them, so unfortunately I haven’t made any converts. Keep it up girl, for the both of us! Cheers to the cucumbers!!
My mother introduced me to pretty much this same sandwich when I was pregnant years ago. Except, we have one slice peanut butter, other with mayonnaise and of course the cucumber. My favorite to this day ?
I’m so glad I’m not alone, Jenna! I’ll have to try it with the mayonnaise now. I’m intrigued!
Been eating peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches for nearly 60 years now. We were raised on ‘em and loved them. My mother ate them when she was little too so they go back a spell. . A lot of coal miners in Pittsburg had them in their lunch buckets.
Over the years I started eating mine with tater chips layered into them. Something about the crunch it gave made me stay with it. What’s funny is I just had one about 15 minutes ago before I ran into this.
We also used to also eat cucumber sandwiches with lots of mayo as kids. Back when bacon was cured and smoked at home, we would slice it down and eat it on sliced bread cold. People would think it’s raw today but it was already fully cooked during the smoking just not rendered down in a pan. Delicious sandwich, ate tons of them growing up and I’m still healthy as a horse.
Glad to see others like the peanut butter cukers.