Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories.

So let's say you're in a situation where you lose all access to food, but you've got effectively unlimited access to pickles -- like, you're trapped inside a recently abandoned pickle warehouse.

Could you conceivably eat enough pickles to survive for a month? Two months? Or would your body just shut down from all the sodium and acid?

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

if a place in the US put pickled onions on your burger when you asked for pickles, I think we'd have a problem

Hell nah. Pickled onion is really good on a burger. I wish it was more common.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I ... I can't ... I ... am I smoking salvia?

    Pickled onions may be good if you ask for it. I'm not arguing about the flavor lmao. I'm saying 100% of people who ask for "pickles" without further elaboration are expecting pickled cucumbers because that's what's meant by "pickles" here in the US. It's how they're labeled on menus, packaging including jars, advertising, literature, movies, comics, and all other forms of media.

    NO ONE anywhere in the US means "pickled onions" when they say "pickles." No one.

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