Gherkin
1. small cucumber
a small cucumber. Use: pickling
2. prickly fruit
a prickly hard-skinned fruit from a climbing plant Use: pickling
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Gherkins are a kind of cucumber. Simply enough, their name comes from 'Gerk', the Dutch for cucumber.
Gherkins are a sort of pickled cucumber and they are grown and made for eating.
Apparently, Mcdonald's put gherkins in their burger because their burgers contain so much sugar, if they didn't put the gherkins in the burgers, they would need to class them as desserts! Maybe this is the same reason everyone else puts gherkins in burgers!!
Pickled gherkins would not have a viscosity since viscosity refers to a liquid's resistance to flow.
Gherkins!
I think it is because gherkins are usually in an acid of some sort (vinegar) that would re-act with other containers.
merkins, jerkins
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Its a eastend term
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In Europe, you will be served pickled gherkins with your burger.
The reason why McDonalds put gherkins in their burgers is because, with you the gherkins, the burgers would be classed as a dessert due to the high levels of sugar in their burgers.
No absolutely not. Contain a huge amount of sodium and phosphates.