Pinterest's most popular sandwich is missing one very surprising ingredient

Pinned nearly 800,000 times, it looks nothing like you'd expect.

By Emily Rivas, Today's Parent

Updated August 31, 2017

Photo, Coach Calorie via Pinterest.

According to Pinterest’s user base, bread sandwiches are soooo not on-trend right now. Wait, what?

Yep, Pinterest’s most-pinned sandwich is in fact, not really a sandwich at all. It’s made up of cucumber slices putting the squeeze on cheese and roast beef — and it’s been pinned nearly 800,000 times.

Photo, Our Paleo Life via Pinterest.

Apparently there are plenty of sandwich-haters out there determined to create alternatives to those boring sliced-bread things. The second most popular “sandwich” on Pinterest right now is a no-bread Italian sub roll-up from Our Paleo Life, and it’s been shared around 160,000 times.

Photo, Two Healthy Kitchens via Pinterest.

And the third most popular (pinned 100,000 times) — a granola crunch apple-peanut butter sandwich wrap from Two Healthy Kitchens — only appears to be a little more sandwich-like.

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