in response to adrian's picke comments... pickles are vegetables.... perhaps it is the english language for our parents to be so accurate with the fundemental basics of the word 'pickle' but i think that a pickle is a vegetable because when i think 'pickle' i think of the green slices of sour cucumbers that all my friends pick out of their burgers and place them in mine, making my culinary experience at McDonald's more exciting (More bang for the buck. also makes the hamburger less dry). so in that Regards, i believe that the word 'pickle' as accepted by the fast food generation, is a vegetable. THat also being perhaps it takes the guilt out of eating so much grease and oil and fat that having a pickle with your grease dripping burger and french fries, is like the compliment and antidote to the aorta- poison we shove down our throats. it is indeed the very small yang to the over powering yin of the burger.

but then again, the point on saying that 'pickle' is merely a process of making food last indefinitely (as we like to think so these days with salt and vinegar and oh so wonderful preservatives) like if u eat japanese food (do i wish i had a tenth shrimp tempura . i 'd be happy with one shrimp tempura) with the multi colored pickled vegetables...
so then again, what we think as pickle could be a variety of vegetables like radish, turnip, cucumbers....
so then i guess 'pickle' isnt really a vegetable then.
or is it?

As you can probably tell by now that i am slightly incoherent.... i believe that all animals that can be tamed should be eaten. yes, you are reading the thoughts of 'Omigosh, jon ate a what????'

peace outside