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 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

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 Bell, George