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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I think it was last year that I had to break it to my mother that pickles are not, in fact, a naturally occurring relative of cucumbers, but rather the result of placing cucumbers in some sort of brine. She's almost 70, and apparently believed there were pickle plants out there that you could just walk up to and grab a gherkin, or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm confused. Gherkins are just small cucumbers, right? Typically used for pickling, yes, but still just small cucumbers.

From the Dutch "augurk" (which is a (small) pickled cucumber)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's pretty commonly used to refer to pickled gherkins here, I can't remember the last time I saw them just sold as cucumbers.

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