Pickle (disambiguation)
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Pickle commonly refers to:
- In the US and Canada, pickle usually refers to a pickled cucumber
- In the UK, pickle usually refers to a relish or sandwich pickle such as Branston Pickle.
- However, when referred to in the plural, e.g. (a jar of) pickles, it tends to refer to a variant of the US/Canada version, but which can also contain cauliflower and onion as well as cucumber.
[edit] Vegetables and fruits
- Indian pickle, a type of pickle involving strong Indian spices (can involve lime, garlic, chili pepper and mango among others)
- Beni shoga and Gari (ginger), forms of pickled ginger, common in Japanese cuisine.
- Relish, a cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment
- Types of pickled cucumber:
- Dill pickle
- Gherkin, sold mostly in British fish and chips shops
- Polskie ogórki or "Polish cucumbers"
[edit] Preservation
[edit] Sports and games
- Pickle-in-the-middle, a three-person game, also known as monkey-in-the-middle
- Rundown, a type of play in baseball, is called a pickle
- Pickleball, a game with similarities to tennis
[edit] Video and Photo Sharing
Pickle is a next-generation online video and photo sharing service. Users upload images from their computer, digital camera, by e-mail and by mobile phone through MMS picture messaging. "Email in" capabilities allow users to pool photos across multiple people and devices to capture events from everyone's point of view.
To share uploaded photos and videos, users can send vibrant PickleMails that are specially formatted to never clog a recipient's inbox. Pickle also provides HTML code for each photo and video uploaded to enable posting on MySpace profiles, blogs, Ebay listings and other personal websites.
[edit] Other
- Pickling (metal), surface treatment with chemical solution
- Python programming language uses a serialization library called
pickle. - Pickle (cartoonist)
- Drunkenness
- Pickle is also a derogatory term for those either serving in the military or those in an ROTC program. The term stems from the olive green pants and garrison caps cadets wear.
- Pickle is also used to describe being in a difficult situation "in a pickle".
