sour pickle

Example Sentences

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At lunch, the forces of good and evil collide when Harvey creates mean Emperor Pickletine from a sour pickle and Dwight makes Fruitigami Yoda from a Fruit Roll-Up.

From Washington Post

Special, self-denying three-cent meals, consisting of a ball of rice the size of a grapefruit with a sour pickle imbedded in the centre, were eaten throughout the nation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each girl was presented with at least half a big sour pickle from Heavy’s store; but really, the pickles had nothing to do with the initiation of the neophytes.

From Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans by Emerson, Alice B.

I always said of Will he could bleed a sour pickle.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie

If you add vinegar to cucumber before the oil some of the slices will taste like sour pickle, as the vinegar soaks into the cucumber.

From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by Payne, A. G.