pickles, n.All

Pickles don’t have to be cucumbers.

Pickles helped people survive winters before refrigeration.

Pickles can taste nothing like the vegetables they started as.

Pickles can last months longer than the vegetables that became them.

Pickles can be made without vinegar.

Pickles have been around for more than 4,000 years.

Pickles are older than most written languages.

Pickles appear in nearly every culinary tradition on Earth.