pickle

Especially, Still said, because it appeared there were numerous California hospitals in the same pickle.

Her room was a small one off the kitchen that had once been a pickle pantry, and it still smelled sharply of vinegar, as if a barrel of sauerkraut were hidden someplace nearby.

In such a pickle, Old Timothy’s inscrutable advice was better than none, so in search of Dr. Westminster she went.

At that point you are truly in a pickle, for instead of swift action there will be a lengthy discussion as onlookers try to determine which of them is best qualified to assist.

There are fermented hot sauces and a blue fermented pickle juice-lemonade hybrid meant to be downed by the shot.