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
One of the gherkins seems to be bending over to inspect one particular slice of processed meat while a smaller gherkin, presumably a child, stands by, apparenly bored.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2012
Garnish by putting a spot of green gherkin on one, a spot of red beet on another, and on a third one of truffle, and so on alternately.
From Choice Cookery by Catherine Owen
Dmyterko lines up jars of gherkins and tomatoes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Funny and touching, an Easter egg-loaded cross between Ray Harryhausen and Charlie Kaufman, it manages to generate concern for their plight, their Shakespearean recitations and their gherkins.
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
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