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In aspirant middle-class circles, the cucumber sandwich is seen as the bread-based snack to be seen with when sipping afternoon tea on the lawn. It is a little known fact that the invention of this sandwich was actually down to mischievous minor royals out to prove that the middle classes would eat anything if they thought it would make them appear to be higher up the social scale than they actually are. Best eaten with the crusts removed, for added affectation.