“A Little Bit of Cucumber” is a comedic music-hall song written by T. W. Conner for the comedian and singer Harry Champion, who first performed it in 1915;[1] it was published that same year by Francis, Day & Hunter.[2] The song describes the types of food popular among the cockney working-class community of East London at that time.
Many of the songs in Champion’s repertoire featured items of food: pickled onions, hot meat pies, saveloys, trotters, tripe, onions, and baked sheep’s heart;[3] perhaps the best known today is “Boiled Beef and Carrots”.
The song’s lyrics conclude by declaring the cucumber to be the preferred delicacy of the cockney working-class community.[4]
