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
The German phrase is "Die saure Gurken Zeit," or pickled gherkin time.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
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
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
He took them some traditional Ukrainian foods including rye bread, sausage and pickled gherkins.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2022
To the south, the flowers give way to a patch of raveled gherkins.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
