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[deleted] t1_j7s5vc7 wrote

Reply to comment by gonejahman in TIL different kinds of tea (black, green, white, oolong) come from the same plant. The only difference is in how the leaves are processed. by wombat-slayer

Oh! This’ll be the fourth time I get to explain this on Reddit!

Cucumbers can be pickled, but the pickles you’re used to are actually separate varieties, not just small cucumbers. A raw pickle (like the california bush pickle for example) doesn’t actually taste the same as a cucumber, in my opinion.

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Fearless-Golf-8496 t1_j7s6t8c wrote

Gherkins, you mean? I believe they're what's known as 'dill pickles' in the US.

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[deleted] t1_j7s7hlo wrote

There’s a whole bunch of different varieties, gherkin is one. I’m actually pretty sure dill pickles are gherkins pickled with dill specifically, but I’m already the nerd correcting people about cucumbers vs pickles and I don’t need to get weirder right now.

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Fearless-Golf-8496 t1_j7s7yu8 wrote

We only get the gherkins in the UK, but that might be because we tend to go more for chutneys than pickled vegetables. We have pickled gherkins, pickled beetroot and pickled onions, and that's about it.

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