TIL: Today I Learned

[Kyriakos]

TIL pickled sausages in a jar is a thing.

So, are pickled cucumbers called 'toursi' or something, in Bulgarian?

Cause that is what they are called here, and it very obviously is not a Greek word.

Sounds more middle-eastern, though.

 

[cybrxkhan]

TIL pickled sausages in a jar is a thing.

Pickled everything!

 

[Borachio]

Pickled in what, though?

Pickled in vinegar, or salt, isn't as interesting as brandy or gin.

 

[gay_Aleks]

So, are pickled cucumbers called 'toursi' or something, in Bulgarian?

Cause that is what they are called here, and it very obviously is not a Greek word.

Sounds more middle-eastern, though.

Dunno. Pickled cucumbers, curiously enough, are called... "pickled cucumbers".

 

[Arakhor]

Gherkins (mini cucumbers) are always served pickled, as far as I know.

 

[Kyriakos]

The foreign term 'Toursi' apparently just connotes that something is pickled. For example this is a nasty jar of many pickled things, including peter piper's peck of pickled pepper:

 

[gay_Aleks]

Oh, yes. When it's only pickled cucumbers, we call it pickled cucumbers. Turshia is when you put in several different vegetables in the autumn and hope that by the winter, they're not too soft and they're edible.

Rather a lot of things could be put in it, including: zucchini, watermelons, green tomatoes.

 

[Kyriakos]

Oh, yes. When it's only pickled cucumbers, we call it pickled cucumbers. Turshia is when you put in several different vegetables in the autumn and hope that by the winter, they're not too soft and they're edible.

Rather a lot of things could be put in it, including: zucchini, watermelons, green tomatoes.

Watermelons?

?

(just the thought of a pickled watermelon makes me ask that you instantly review whether you used the wrong term there ).

 

[gay_Aleks]

Unfortunately, yes. I want to believe I live in a country that doesn't put watermelons in giant jars filled with vinegar and salt and water, but alas, it is the truth.

 

[Atlantic Pacf.]

TIL that pickled watermelon is a staple of Bulgarian cuisine.

Surely they don't put the whole watermelon in a jar? I've heard of pickled watermelon rinds, but I doubt the existence of pickled whole watermelon. Can you show us a picture?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Good lord no. They take a slice and put it inside. It improves the taste. We put among other things: peppers, carrots, green tomatoes.

There's a receipt for turshia with garlic.

I won't even speak beyond that.

 

[Atlantic Pacf.]

It's okay. I had pickled garlic before, so I won't be disgusted.

Now I want to eat jars of olives and turshia* again.

*We don't call these "jars of assorted pickled vegetables" "turshisa" in America, for obvious reasons, but they essentially are turshia.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL about urethral sounding. That should fulfill my quota for "horrifying thing for the day".

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL people in Britain, Ireland, and the ANZACs eat Swedes. That's also horrifying.

 

[Borachio]

Buttered mashed swede, with parsley, is delightful.

 

[Civ'ed]

Buttered mashed swede, with parsley, is delightful.

I personally prefer Icelanders, but can't be picky about your assorted Scandinavians I guess
uhm, TIL, TIL...
TIL that /r/askhistorians consider's AC: Unity to simply have shoddy writing, which says a lot about a game about conspiracies and badscience

 

[Arakhor]

What's so terrible about swedes? Americans call them rutabagas (or so I'm told).

 

[warpus]

Aren't pickled cucumbers called pickles?

I don't really know anything about the pickling of things tbh.

 

[Antilogic]

TIL about urethral sounding. That should fulfill my quota for "horrifying thing for the day".

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Aren't pickled cucumbers called pickles?

I don't really know anything about the pickling of things tbh.

Gherkins are a bit more specific, so in that case UK 1-US 0.

You are now manually imagining something being inserted into your gherkin-hole.