TIL: Today I Learned

[Arakhor]

Gherkins are like tiny cucumbers and always served pickled. They're not nearly as unpleasant as pickled onions.

 

[warpus]

So what the hell are pickles then? Is there such a thing as a non-pickled pickle?

By the way, my mom's pickled pickles are the best.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Duh. Some of us don't put pickles for all eternity in jars created to survive a nuclear apocalypse.

Some of us eat them as they pick them from the garden.

 

[Samez]

So did I get it correctly?
cucumber: long and small diameter

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gherkin: shorter but larger diameter

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pickles: up to the size of gherkins and usually pickled

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[Kyriakos]

Gherkins likely have far smaller diameter than ordinary cucumbers, though. (unless you mean ratio of diameter to length).

Just look at the one in London.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Hmm. I'd say that you should just limit it to pickled cucumbers, i.e cucumbers currently in a jar, and everything else.

 

[madviking]

i enjoy both pickled cucumbers and pickled gherkins

 

[warpus]

All this cucumber vs pickle vs gherkin business is confusing.

The Polish word for pickle is ogorek - which sort of sounds like gherkin. But as far as I know it is meant to describe all 3 varieties: pickle, cucumber, and gherkin. But I do not specialize in green elongated vegetables, so I could be wrong.

 

[Antilogic]

Mmm... pickles. I bought a pint of pickles from the local burger shop (yeah, they sell burgers, beer, and pickles), they are amazing.

 

[Takhisis]

Hmm. I'd say that you should just limit it to pickled cucumbers, i.e cucumbers currently in a jar, and everything else.

Cucumbers deserve to go into hamburgers, not secreted away in brine-filled jars for all eternity.

 

[gay_Aleks]

No, cucumbers deserve to be shredded into salad with tomatoes and cheese.

As God intended.

 

[Arakhor]

Samex, those "gherkins" look more like marrows, whereas those "pickles" look much closer to gherkins.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Jesus Christ, have mercy!

 

[madviking]

Mmm... pickles. I bought a pint of pickles from the local burger shop (yeah, they sell burgers, beer, and pickles), they are amazing.

deli pickles are the freaking best. a reuben sandwich + a pickle makes my day.

 

[Takhisis]

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

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No, cucumbers deserve to be shredded into salad with tomatoes and cheese.

As God intended.

Which cheese?

 

[gay_Aleks]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Anything else that contains even the slightest shade of yellow is heresy and must be purged.

 

[Borachio]

Looks like feta to me.

Which I eat quite a lot of, because it's cheap. It's rather on the salty side, though.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Feta is awesome and totally byzantine dood.

 

[Takhisis]

Byzantine and awesome are synonyms.

 

[gay_Aleks]

You know what else is synonym? Byzantine and liar.