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
Czechia’s chlebíčky: A slice of baguette with potato salad, ham, Emmental, tomato and gherkin.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
In the melting pot we call Amur’can, Disagreeable stew has been perkin’, Made from yammering yam With a thick slice of ham And a limp, insignificant gherkin.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2017
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
Anchovy and gherkin, cut into small diamonds, may be placed between, or cut gherkins in slices, and a border of them laid round.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Dmyterko lines up jars of gherkins and tomatoes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
They issued an alert saying the melting middle - which is made of mustard and gherkins - "may maintain a high temperature once cooked" and could burn when customers bite into the burger.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024
Kherson remains without electricity, running water or heating, but residents found some relief in being able to purchase Ukrainian pickled gherkins, dumplings, horseradish and other favourites.
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2022
To the south, the flowers give way to a patch of raveled gherkins.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
