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The “suddenly” happened over thousands of years of humans learning how to preserve food, but yeah you’ve got the right idea.

Why do pickles get to be pickles? As if cucumbers have a monopoly on pickling. Everything else has to be pickled eggs, pickled beans, pickled beets, etc. Not pickled cucumbers though, those are the upper echelon of pickling, the supreme leaders just known as pickles.

It’s kind of the same as my thoughts on the word building. As in “we are building a building”, ok well I’m making a making.

Or we could pretend that all pickled things are pickles, and then get all mad when we order a side of pickles and don't get beets.

I’m not religious, but god bless the person who did this first

I’m down for that, unless I get picked chicken feet.