Me, I like them better whole. They’re juicer and crunchier that way.
I hate Pickles in stuff, like potato salad, egg salad and tuna salad. But other than that a slice one once in awhile is ok.
Oh YUM! PICKLES! I LOVE PICKLES! Will take them sliced or whole, preferably whole. Dill over sweet but bread and butter pickles are also to die for. PICKLES! MMmmmm!
Yes
Depends of the pickle. Cornichons and gherkins I eat whole. Larger pickles I eat sliced or speared. Or relished.
Depends how I’m eating them. On a burger or a dog, I don’t want a whole one. 
I sometimes eat pickles with hot sauce. Halves, or the spears in jars are fine for this. I don’t have a problem with whole pickles, except that that’s a lot of pickle, so I tend not to eat them that way.
Isn’t this question equivalent to “Do you prefer your pickles on sandwiches or by themselves”?
Define “sliced.” Spears, yay. Into flat disks, boo.
Define “pickles” for us non-Americans. Judging by silenus’s post, you mean gherkins/cornichons rather than pickled onions/eggs/beetroots/anything else, yes?
If so, I’m voting whole, but I’ve yet to meet a pickle I’ve not liked.
Do you mean buying pickles sliced into rings or spears IN THE JAR? No, I don’t do that. They get all limp and dejected.
It’s the only way bread-and-butter pickles come, so yes for those, although I’ve only bought a jar of them once in 40 years.
Cutting a pickle with a knife is not onerous.
These: pickles
Whole. All the way.
Exactly. To an Americanski, a “pickle” is a pickled cucumber. Everything else is a “pickled ‘something else.’”
We also call a “beetroot” a “beet.” The upper part of the plant is “beet greens.” I mention this because I have a jar of home-pickled beets and eggs in the fridge, and now I want some.
Americans have all of those other sorts of pickles, but to an American, “a pickle” without any qualifiers always means a cucumber (gherkin).
And pickles are better on sandwiches than straight, therefore they’re better sliced than whole.
Dude. It has clearly been TOO LONG since you hit Corky & Lenny’s.
Git over to Chagrin Blvd and have them bring you a bowl of half-sours, garlic dills, and pickled tomatoes, and a brisket sandwich on rye with horseradish mustard. Eat alternately.
^ Dammit, Ike, it’s too late at night here for me to eat those delectables, let alone find them in NE Florida. sob I’m goin’a bed.
Whole, of course.
sliced in discs like hamburger pickles is gross for dills but ok for thick sliced bread and butter pickles. I voted sliced because I like spears, and find whole cukes too big, messy, and hard to bite.
To eat, whole; as a condiment, some type of slice.
It depends on how I am using the pickle. If I am using the pickle as a condiment, I like them sliced. If I am using the pickle as a snack, whole please.
ETA: Ninja’d!
Since we can our own, I prefer them sliced. More surface area to soak up the spicy goodness, plus you can get more into the jar.