When do you eat your pickle?

[barondave]

Sandwiches often come with a pickle on the side. When do you eat the pickle? Do you have a set order to the meal, or is it random? Do you eat it all at once?

I almost always eat the pickle in between halves. Slightly more problematic if the sandwich is cut in thirds, but the principal is the same: In the middle of the meal, starting and ending with the sandwich. If I try, I can usually finish the chips/fries before the last bite of sandwich, or not eat the last chips at all. I'm not a fanatic about it, but use this paradigm more often than not.

A luncheon group of five fen had no agreement on pickle management, and clearly this is a matter of, um, taste. So I throw the field open for discussion.

Comments

[nuttynugget.livejournal.com]

You know what I've noticed and maybe you have too. A lot of people eat their chips before they eat their sandwiches. Is there anything connecting pickle eating and chip eating? In my case, however, I usually take one bite before I eat my sandwich or whatever, and then leave the rest of the pickle unfinshed. In restarants I find they don't serve quality pickles. They are either too hard and green tasting, or too soggy and mushy to finish. I will eat them at home, but I really only like the Mt. Olives, bread and butter pickles. I agree with artpaulrocks though...pickle juice sogging your bread up is pretty grody.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I had speculated there were two modus operandi common: Eat the side dishes first (or during) to finish on the entre, or to chow down on the main course and fill in with side dishes until full. So far, the former is in evidence and the latter has not made an appearance, with a large contingent that doesn't eat the pickle at all.

Go fig.