# What makes kosher pickles "kosher?"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 3, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-kosher-pickles-kosher/222416 "2004-01-03T02:11:35Z")\
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**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:** [January 3, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-kosher-pickles-kosher/222416/1 "2004-01-03T02:11:35Z")

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I mean, does a rabbi have to pick the cucumbers? ;j

And while we are on the subject…do they have to be dill? Is there such a thing as a kosher sweet pickle?

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-kosher-pickles-kosher/222416/2 "2004-01-03T03:07:50Z")

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This has been answered by Cecil, in [Are kosher pickles really kosher?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_351.html) … a quick visit to the Home Page and thence to the section called “Archives” and you could search and find it for yourself.

and in an earlier thread [Kosher pickles](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106453)

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**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:** [January 3, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-kosher-pickles-kosher/222416/3 "2004-01-03T03:57:42Z")

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That answers the first question, but what about the second? Is there such a thing as a sweet kosher pickle? Or has “kosher” become synonomous with “dill?”

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-kosher-pickles-kosher/222416/4 "2004-01-03T04:49:17Z")

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[Kosher Bread & Butter (sweet) pickles](http://www.pantryshelf.com/pickles/breadnbutter.html)