How come pickles are called pickles?
There are other pickled things. Pickled onions. Pickled eggs. Pickled garlic.
Cucumbers got the noun. Everything else received a measly qualifying adjective.
What makes cucumbers so special?
The word pickle comes from the Dutch word pekel, meaning brine. It refers to the process of pickling, or fermenting food in brine to extend its shelf life.
Cucumbers have exploited the pickle market for their own gain.
If any food should be called pickles, it should be olives.
Olives always come pickled.
You could say olive them are pickles.
We should overthrow the cucumber tyrant and choose a new leader for the word pickle.
I’ll start the campaign.
“Got yourself in a pickle? Choose a real pickle. Olives for pickle president because you already know olive pickles.”
You get it?
Olive pickles.
Like I love pickles.
I thought it was clever.
Anyways.
They’re called pickled cucumbers now.
Don’t @ me.