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

The burger came in a tiny brioche bun, with a gherkin topping and sweet maple-mustard sauce.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2017

The book spans generations, beginning with quirky Ottokar, a pickler from Znojmo, Moravia, “the gherkin capital of the Habsburg Empire.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2016

The brick-burners had pity on him; they gave him an old tattered garment to wear and a piece of black 176 bread and a gherkin to eat.

From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)