Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Food for thought

When a food item is pickled in a brine we call it by it's name, but add "pickled" to the beginning. Such as: pickled eggs, pickled beets, pickled pigs feet, etc.

However, when cucumbers are pickled we don't call them pickled cucumbers. We call them pickles.

Why?

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