gherkin

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The gherkins “symbolized for me the last thing you have in your cupboards when you run out of everything. It starts from the last gherkin jar, and from there it all goes south.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Burger King posted a poll on Twitter asking what people preferred on their burger; tomato or gherkin.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022

As I bit into the taut casing of the sausage, chunks of onion and gherkin fell here and there.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

In one of the barns, an assistant is working on a sculpture made of sausagelike elements, while just outside stands one of Wurm’s large gherkin sculptures.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

Mix the following ingredients: two anchovies in oil boned and minced, a gill of mayonnaise sauce, a little grated horseradish, very little chopped shallot, a little cold salmon or trout, and a small gherkin chopped.

From The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.