photo courtesy of junior Nayah Holmes.
Relish, the pickles you have and relish the pickles you will eventually devour. Those at San Luis Obispo High School who do not like pickles refuse to try the varieties and only condemn the classic kosher dill. If you are one that falls in that category SLOHS Expressions recommends you to read Sweet and tart Pickles will steal your heart this summer – Expressions which lists the different pickles and a short description as well as how they rate. Hopefully after that, this article will allow you to appreciate your new found love or continued found affair of the pickle.
It all starts with a cucumber, a delightful vegetable itself, but only continues when a cucumber is sliced and drenched in a nice bath of vinegar, water, and the sweetest pinch of salt. This is the basic pickle, and basic is good. But, if basic is not what you like, have no fear because the pickling queen is here, and she wants to tell you that you can add jalapeno, garlic and clove.SLOHS students testimonials, prove pickles worth.
“I like pickles because they taste good and they’re convenient to eat, I feel like they get a bad rep but they give them to you a lot like with your sandwich so may as well like them,” said senior Grace Rubio.
“They’re sour and salty and they’re not really bad for you so I don’t feel bad about eating them,” said senior Amanda Ardantz.
“I love pickles because they are the best snack ever and they just taste good,” said senior Avery Quinn.
The gratitude all pickle lovers have for cucumbers can only be expressed in the copious amount of pickles we tend to eat. Pickles have been enjoyed for years and the NY Food Museum dates them back to 2400 BC. Pickles as well have been signs of beauty, Cleopatra stated that her diet that included pickles was a cause for her beauty. Still not enough reasons to love pickles? Well without pickles, everyone at San Luis Obispo High School and the surrounding country would not be alive. This is because when Christopher Colombus was en route to discover America he had to ration pickles in order to avoid scurvy. So let’s all say a big thank you to cucumbers cooler cousins and remember November 14th is national pickle awareness day, so make sure to pickle up all your feelings for pickles till then.
