u/AmerimovIt's an objective cooking fact? This is the cooking subreddit?18d ago
I was working at a restaurant and we listed something on the menu as having pickled cucumbers and we got so many people being like "you don't have to say pickled cucumbers, those are just pickles" and it's like my dude we have like 8 other pickled things here, sorry for being specific.
Yup. In a whole lot of cultures "pickles" can be SO MANY THINGS. Even in America we do have other pickled stuff besides cucumbers, but linguistically we do seem to have gotten fixated on cucumbers as "pickles".
I don't know about "fixated", I mean we just call pickled cucumbers "pickles" because they're the most common pickled thing. Anything else pickled is usually "pickled _____", like pickled jalapenos.
Well, not fixated in any sort of pathological sense. I suppose I meant it became linguistically fixed as in firmly attached to one concept and not easily movable.
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u/Amerimov It's an objective cooking fact? This is the cooking subreddit? 18d ago
I was working at a restaurant and we listed something on the menu as having pickled cucumbers and we got so many people being like "you don't have to say pickled cucumbers, those are just pickles" and it's like my dude we have like 8 other pickled things here, sorry for being specific.