why are pickles called pickles intead of pickled cuccumbers, when other things that are “pickled” are called pickled “whatever they are”?
My WAG is that cucumbers where the most common vegetables to be pickled and that people started to refer to “pickled cucumbers” as “pickles”, like “pickle relish” is “relish”, and “tomato ketchup” is “ketchup”.
Make that “cucumbers were…”