What do you think of when someone says pickle? If you are like most people you will thing of a pickled cucumber! Dill pickles, gherkins, bread and butter, garlic, etc.
But why does the cucumber get this distinction of just being a "pickle?" Lots of foods are pickled. Pickled eggs, pickled beets, pickled bologna, pickled corn and on and on. So why do we have to specify a pickled what unless we are talkinga about the lowly cucumber? Did they have a good PR firm or a better lobbyist?
I'm probably the only person to ever ponder this question but that doesn't mean I don't deserve an answer!
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Have I read this before?...and should't there be like 20 comments with it?...LOL.
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