In America you’d often just get a sandwich and a pickle on the side. It was weird.
maybe it's on the side like palate cleanser? You have a bite after bite of sandwich to cut through the richness of the beef?
I'm used to it being in the sandwich.
The pickle on the side is a pickled cucumber, not a gherkin. Or at least I don't recall eating at any restaurant that served actual gherkins on the side. Same for on the sandwich/burger, you'd be much more likely to find some flavor of pickled cucumber inside your sandwich than gherkins. But yes, the acidity of the vinegar in the pickle is a palate cleanser to better taste the flavors of the meat in the sandwich.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
I don't think they have UK corned beef over in the US but happy to be corrected.
Given that UK corned beef is minced, gelatinized, and stuffed in a can like a beef version of Spam, I'm almost glad it's difficult to find here.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
edited October 2021
A gherkin is just a type of pickled cucumber though, usually small. Edit: I suppose its one of those things where all gherkins are pickles, but not all pickles are gherkins.
In America you’d often just get a sandwich and a pickle on the side. It was weird.
maybe it's on the side like palate cleanser? You have a bite after bite of sandwich to cut through the richness of the beef?
I'm used to it being in the sandwich.
The pickle on the side is a pickled cucumber, not a gherkin. Or at least I don't recall eating at any restaurant that served actual gherkins on the side. Same for on the sandwich/burger, you'd be much more likely to find some flavor of pickled cucumber inside your sandwich than gherkins. But yes, the acidity of the vinegar in the pickle is a palate cleanser to better taste the flavors of the meat in the sandwich.
Since we're on naming confusions of international foods, there's also West Indian gherkins and Mexican sour gherkins which are closely related but different species from the cucumber and don't have to be pickled to be called that.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
Here in the US gerkhin is usually a small sweet cucumber pickle. A dill pickle or bread and butter pickle wouldn’t be called a gherkin usually, they’re different varieties.
The best vegetable to pickle is baby corn. I can eat an actually dangerous amount of that shit.
I'm a fan of spicy asparagus myself.
I don't mind pickled asparagus, but it's not that far off on my personal enjoyment factor from just regular-ass cooked asparagus. Do you pickle your own, or buy a brand?
The best vegetable to pickle is baby corn. I can eat an actually dangerous amount of that shit.
I'm a fan of spicy asparagus myself.
I don't mind pickled asparagus, but it's not that far off on my personal enjoyment factor from just regular-ass cooked asparagus. Do you pickle your own, or buy a brand?
Our friends who do a mountain of canning gave us a jar of it. They also do an apple pie in a jar that amazing. We let them harvest our fruit trees and in exchange get a case of stuff.
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God, at first glance I thought that was a spaghetti and meatball pizza, and this wretched thread has ruined me to the point where I thought "Yeah, I'd try that."
I assume it must be some sort of common wisdom about people clicking more on videos with thumbnails with faces in them, but I wonder if that holds true for a face that is having food shoved in its maw.
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Personally the one food I have least interest in right now is spaghetti, on account of my most recent experience being seeing it hanging out of some rando's gob like he's vomiting up a plateful.
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Close, the fourth one was crunchy!
The pickle on the side is a pickled cucumber, not a gherkin. Or at least I don't recall eating at any restaurant that served actual gherkins on the side. Same for on the sandwich/burger, you'd be much more likely to find some flavor of pickled cucumber inside your sandwich than gherkins. But yes, the acidity of the vinegar in the pickle is a palate cleanser to better taste the flavors of the meat in the sandwich.
Given that UK corned beef is minced, gelatinized, and stuffed in a can like a beef version of Spam, I'm almost glad it's difficult to find here.
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I was today years old when I realized "spag bol" meant "spaghetti Bolognese".
gherkins are pickled cucumbers though
No that's a gurka. They're talking about leather sleeveless jackets.
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That's a jerkin. You're thinking of the activity I do with my partner in the evenings.
I'm a fan of spicy asparagus myself.
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Yeah you're not missing much tbh.
I don't mind pickled asparagus, but it's not that far off on my personal enjoyment factor from just regular-ass cooked asparagus. Do you pickle your own, or buy a brand?
Our friends who do a mountain of canning gave us a jar of it. They also do an apple pie in a jar that amazing. We let them harvest our fruit trees and in exchange get a case of stuff.
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Oh we have that too, generally in a can with chopped up potato as corned beef hash. Heat it or fry a patty for breakfast.
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One of my pregan comfort food meals would be a thick slab of corned beef floating in baked beans
Or heck, just a corned beef sandwich with mustard
You have to scrape off the white gunk, though
We call them all gherkins in the uk
I've eaten tinned corned beef plenty of times but the fact is that salt beef is approximately an octillion times better.
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Corned beef has the edge of being available in the Aldi over the road :P
If you're ever in London, go to Brick lane. Get a curry but also a salt beef bagel Beigel Bake Brick Lane Bakery