'Cucumber salad' refers to the viral 2024 TikTok recipe by creator @logagm — a simple smashed cucumber salad with chilli, sesame, vinegar and garlic — which became so popular it caused cucumber shortages in Iceland. If your teen is making cucumber salad obsessively, they are following the trend. Healthy and cheap, no concerns.
cucumber salad
Logan Moffitt's viral mandoline-sliced cucumber with aggressive seasoning, ca.
ˈkjuː.kʌm.bər ˈsæl.ədCoined ~20242020sGen AlphatrendingFading573 viewsLast reviewed Jun 29, 2026＋ Add a definition
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Born ~2024 · 2 years of recorded useSeen in the wild
Firecrawl: How to turn the end of a cucumber into a lip-smacking salad – recipeAug 2024
Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian [View image in fullscreen](https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/aug/24/how-to-turn-the-end-of-a-cucumber-into-a-lip-smacking-salad-recipe-zero-waste-cooking#img-1) Tom Hunt’s…
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Firecrawl: Meera Sodha's vegan recipe for no-cook chickpea, tomato and ...May 2020
Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian # Meera Sodha's vegan recipe for no-cook chickpea, tomato and cucumber salad A quick, easy, throw-together salad to welcome the start of summer When the warm weather arrives, I d…
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Wikipedia: Cucumber salad
Cucumber salad is a salad dish with cucumber as its main ingredient.
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Retrieved 11 February 2025.\ 7. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_salad#cite_ref-7)Brooks, Lian (2024-08-29). ["TikTok's viral cucumber salad recipe and trend, explained"](https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/ar…
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#1·Apr 24, 2026Global
Logan Moffitt's viral mandoline-sliced cucumber with aggressive seasoning, ca. summer 2024. Briefly caused a cucumber shortage in Iceland and Scandinavia. The cucumber-chili-sesame-fish-sauce combo escaped TikTok into home cooking and stayed there.
"On my fourth cucumber salad this week. Send help."
Origin: Popularized by TikToker Logan Moffitt (@logagm) in August 2024.
For parents
'Cucumber salad' refers to the viral 2024 TikTok recipe by creator @logagm — a simple smashed cucumber salad with chilli, sesame, vinegar and garlic — which became so popular it caused cucumber shortages in Iceland. If your teen is making cucumber salad obsessively, they are following the trend. Healthy and cheap, no concerns.
For ESL learners
'Cucumber salad' refers, in 2024 internet usage, to a viral TikTok recipe by creator Logan Moffitt (@logagm) — a simple smashed cucumber salad with chilli oil, sesame, vinegar and garlic — which trended so heavily it reportedly caused cucumber shortages in Iceland. Register: informal, food and culture journalism. In formal writing specify on first reference. A common learner mistake is to read it as a generic dish; in 2024 chat it refers specifically to this viral preparation.
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“Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian [View image in fullscreen](https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/aug/24/how-to-turn-the-end-of-a-cucumber-into-a-lip-smacking-salad-recipe-zero-waste-cooking#img-1) Tom Hunt’s smashed cucumber salad.”
“Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian # Meera Sodha's vegan recipe for no-cook chickpea, tomato and cucumber salad A quick, easy, throw-together salad to welcome the start of summer When the warm weather arrives, I don’t want to cook, but I do still want to eat something delicious.”
“Cucumber salad is a salad dish with cucumber as its main ingredient.”
“Retrieved 11 February 2025.\ 7. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_salad#cite_ref-7)Brooks, Lian (2024-08-29). ["TikTok's viral cucumber salad recipe and trend, explained"](https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/cucumber-salad-tiktok-recipe). _Glamour UK_.”
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