# Do you prefer your pickles sliced or whole? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146 "2017-06-16T22:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/1 "2017-06-16T22:02:42Z")
Me, I like them better whole. They’re juicer and crunchier that way. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/2 "2017-06-16T22:18:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/3 "2017-06-16T22:18:32Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/4 "2017-06-16T22:28:06Z")
Yes ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/5 "2017-06-16T22:59:31Z")
Depends of the pickle. Cornichons and gherkins I eat whole. Larger pickles I eat sliced or speared. Or relished. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/6 "2017-06-16T23:05:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/7 "2017-06-16T23:12:55Z")
Isn’t this question equivalent to “Do you prefer your pickles on sandwiches or by themselves”? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/8 "2017-06-16T23:51:29Z")
Define “sliced.” Spears, yay. Into flat disks, boo. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/9 "2017-06-16T23:56:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/10 "2017-06-17T01:01:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/11 "2017-06-17T01:06:20Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > 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. These: [pickles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlasic_Pickles#/media/File:VlasicPickles.JPG) Whole. All the way. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/12 "2017-06-17T01:07:20Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Define “pickles” for us non-Americans. Judging by silenus’s post, you mean gherkins/cornichons rather than pickled onions/eggs/beetroots/anything else, yes? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/13 "2017-06-17T01:08:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/14 "2017-06-17T01:21:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > …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. [http://corkyandlennys.com/history/](http://corkyandlennys.com/history/) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/15 "2017-06-17T01:40:24Z")
^ 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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/16 "2017-06-17T01:47:45Z")
Whole, of course. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/17 "2017-06-17T01:49:36Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Define “sliced.” Spears, yay. Into flat disks, boo. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/18 "2017-06-17T02:10:02Z")
To eat, whole; as a condiment, some type of slice. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/19 "2017-06-17T02:10:12Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Me, I like them better whole. They’re juicer and crunchier that way. 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! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146/20 "2017-06-17T03:49:32Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-prefer-your-pickles-sliced-or-whole/789146.md?page=2)