Talk:Gherkin

pickle v. gherkin

Pickle can refer to any pickled food, not just gherkins. As such, I've turned pickle into a disambig page and added the main gherkin entry here. In regards to using the term pickle or gherkin for pickled cucumbers we don't have a clear preference. The word gherkin is used in DW and pickle is used in Torchwood. Since we never see the pickles in torchwood and therefore aren't positive that pickle refers to cucumber pickles, it's safer to use gherkin.

At the same time, I removed the salad daze section. I just read the comic and the word pickle is never used and I don't see anything that's clearly a pickle. I'm not even sure which drawing whoever added this was referencing. Anoted ☎ 07:45, May 17, 2013 (UTC)

Other pages make it clear which image we're calling a pickle, but it's not clear that it is a pickle to me. I assumed it was probably a cucumber but I can't even definitively say that. I'll upload the image and post it here, but I can't until upload is open again--right now it's apparently limited to admins? (Ah, I see, spoiler prevention) It's a weird assumption to say that a cucumber shaped vegetable in a comic about a salad is not the plain vegetable but rather the pickled form. Anoted ☎ 07:56, May 17, 2013 (UTC)