A History Of
The Pickle
Pickle
facts – did you know?
• The history of pickles
stretches so far into antiquity that no definite
time has been established for their origin, but
they are estimated to be over 4,000 years old,
and probably discovered.
•
Pickled eggs are mentioned at least twice in the
Bible (once by Jesus and once by his mum).
• In 850 B.C., a poorly
Aristotle praised the effects of a bath-full of
cured cucumbers. He didn’t feel any better,
but the pickles were delicious.
•
Pliny's writings mention preserved cucumbers;
in other words, pickles. Whatever.
• Napoleon valued pickles
for his armies at the end of his wristies in the
Andes. And Queen Elizabeth liked sticking pickles
on her leggies.
•
George Washington was a pickle enthusiast. At
his death his pickle collection amounted to 476
different kinds of enthusiast, all pickled in
huge jars.
• Pickles inspired
Thomas Jefferson to write the following:
"On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing
more comforting than a fucking nice pickle, brought
up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the
aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's
cellar. Ooh mama, let’s have some of that
pickle."
•In
1918 The Ploughman’s Lunch was invented
when Jed Bundy became the first ploughman ever
to eat lunch. It involved cheese, pickle and a
truculent barman.
• It wasn’t until
1970 that medical science found that some people
can’t eat pickles due to a condition called
‘pickle cell anemia’.
•
Uptight, right-winged, left-out journalist Richard
Littlejohn was actually born Richard Picklejohn.
• People often say
that "bigotry is the preserve of the upper
classes". It isn't, chutney is.
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