Originally published at: A salad recipe is causing a cucumber shortage in Iceland - Boing Boing
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Instead of cucumbers they should try it with Hákarl. I’m sure they have plenty of that on hand.
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dangflangit, so what is this here recipe them younguns and their tickity-tok are all en-cucumbering about, eh??
(one non-video source of surprisingly few)
Ingredients:
1 entire cucumber
1/4 cup sliced red onion
3 tbsp lactose free cream cheese or regular cream cheese
1 tbsp capers
3oz smoked salmon
1/2 an avocado
Everything but the bagel seasoning
1/2 tsp MSG
Salt and black pepper to taste
Directions:
Grab an entire cucumber and slice it thinly on a mandoline. Add the sliced cucumber to your deli container, mason jar, or mixing bowl.
Add in a hefty dollop of cream cheese, sliced red onion, capers, diced avocado, and chopped smoked salmon.
Season with everything bagel seasoning, salt and pepper, and a pinch of MSG.
Pop the lid on your container and shake until everything is well-distributed.
Take the lid off and dig in!
True to [Logan’s] style, this salad is made in a 32-ounce deli takeout container—just add the ingredients, snap on the lid, give it a shake, and enjoy. And if there are any leftovers (though it’s unlikely), you can pop the lid back on and store the salad in the fridge. Of course, a deli cup isn’t required—a mixing bowl or mason jar works just as well.
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So weird how a fairly standard cucumber dish that has been made for decades suddenly gets ‘discovered’ because of social media. Everything old is new again.
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Must be a typo. Minimal required garlic is one head.
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I messaged friends in Iceland when I heard about this a little while ago. They were all, “whut?” 
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A dating trend is causing a pineapple shortage in Spain
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It’s worth remembering that Iceland is a small, remote, low-population-density country, where fresh produce is already less abundant and more expensive than in other, similarly developed countries. It really wouldn’t take a lot of people buying something to create temporary shortages of not-very-popular items, especially in smaller towns.
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I don’t see any Smoked Salmon in the Tiktok recipe. Or cream cheese. Or avocado. Or capers. Okay, you have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT cucumber recipe. Fine. That wasn’t obvious. Not to me, anyway. Personally I’d fry it in a wok with rice, tofu and a bunch of other veg, but to each their own, right?
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How do you fry cucumber without getting a soggy mess? I’m guessing very high heat that my current stove can’t reach.
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How do you fry cucumber without getting a soggy mess? I’m guessing very high heat that my current stove can’t reach.
[/quote] Chop it fine. Yes, if it’s a wok, it should be VERY high heat. If you’re frying it with rice and marinated tofu and a bunch of other veg like peppers and pak choi (or even lettuce!) then it being a soggy mess is more of an advantage than not. De gustibus non disputandem.
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Oh, the country.
I did wonder why we had so many frozen cucumbers.
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I’m not sure if Icelanders have the same expression, but the slow news period over the summer in Norway is called ‘agurktid’ - literally cucumber time.
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In my experience, cucumbers (gourd of the devil that it is) and other salad vegetables are usually everywhere in Iceland - almost all are grown locally in geothermal greenhouses lit by artificial light in winter, so you can get crunchy greens even in the middle of winter.
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hard disagree, Gail. A single clove (which is what? 1 gram? 20 grams? frankly, it’s non-standard) UNCOOKED can destroy a recipe and destroy your breath.
Now, perhaps you are constantly fighting off vampires, so that may actually be a ‘feature’ for you 
cooked garlic- go wild. But watch out in salad dressings.
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I’ve only been there once, for a week, in October, about an hour and a half outside of Reykjavik. This was not my experience or what I heard from a few locals, but I could easily be completely wrong.
And he did say one clove of crushed garlic but if you are chopping it, two cloves.
(One of the few bits of the recipe I could understand in between rest of the mumbly diction. Does TikTok have subtitles?)
This happened a few months ago with cottage cheese here in BC. Some tiktok person posted a recipe and suddenly you can’t get cottage cheese. It’s still in short supply.
Some of his recipes, however, call for one clove of garlic, which is absurd. The only recipe that should call for one clove of garlic is a recipe for one clove of garlic.
Ok, it’s early Saturday morning here and I’m still not completely awake. Are you saying one clove is too much or too little?
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