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Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Ask@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 个月前

What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?

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What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?

Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Ask@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 个月前
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    My wife had to explain to me that pickles were pickled cucumbers and there wasn’t a pickle tree.

    I was 30 something years old.

    • kolonel@lemmy.world
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      Me too, but I was in my 40’s and found out at a bierfest.

      • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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        Makes me wonder, can you pickle zucchinis?

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          You are on The Internet. You don’t have to wonder about anything, anymore.

          https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/228678/zucchini-pickles/

          • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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            Now you can post to this topic about how you had to explain to an adult that the Internet is more than just a message board, but actually a repository for information as well.

        • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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          You can pickle pretty much anything. Vegetables, eggs, fish, you name it.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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            Can you pickle cheese?

            • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
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              Okay, calm down Satan

              Edit: This time science has gone too far 😂
              https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/73939/pickled-cheese/

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              Mozzarella is brined which is a form of pickling. So the answer is, “Yes, you can”.

          • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
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            1 个月前

            Two things that are almost always in my fridge are pickled sliced red onion, and pickled jalapenos. It’s so easy to put together, and a nice bright addition to dishes

        • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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          Yes. And cauliflower, watermelon rinds, radishes, all sorts of things. It’s not just cukes, beets, onions, and eggs.

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          Yes. They are delicious. Acide makes them

    • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
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      I mean if it helps you they are made from a special pickle sized breed of cucumber.

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        Some kinds like gherkins are smaller than the cucumbers that show up in the store, but people pickle the large cukes as well (more common as the dill or sour varieties). Also in other countries it’s common to pickle all kinds of vegetables and even some fruit

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          pretty sure the large “normal” cucumbers only get pickled after being sliced up, i have yet to see a footlong cucumber pickled whole.

          • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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            Yeah the spears aren’t quite that big usually–you probably have to go to an old timey general store for big ones.

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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      That sounds like a real pickle you went through.

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      If it helps there is a variant called “Parisian Pickling”

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      I was much younger when I figured it out, but my mom also did a lot of gardening and canning when I was younger, so we had all kinds of pickled vegetables on the shelves.

      There was still an aha moment when I realized that pickles were just pickled cucumbers, just like the pickled greenbeans, and pickled beets, etc.

      I guess cucumbers were first on the scene and got to use the shortened name ;-)

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