Pickles
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Pickles may refer to:
- A pickled cucumberPickled cucumberA pickled cucumber is a cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment for a period of time, by either immersing the cucumbers in an acidic solution or through souring by lacto-fermentation.-Gherkin:A gherkin is not only...
, the food most commonly referred to as a pickle in the U.S. and Canada - A pickled onionPickled onionPickled onions are a popular pickled food consisting of onions pickled in a solution of vinegar and salt, often with other preservatives and flavourings. In the United Kingdom they are often eaten alongside fish and chips or as part of a ploughman's lunch...
, the food most commonly referred to as a pickle in the UK - Other vegetables that have been pickledPicklingPickling, also known as brining or corning is the process of preserving food by anaerobic fermentation in brine to produce lactic acid, or marinating and storing it in an acid solution, usually vinegar . The resulting food is called a pickle. This procedure gives the food a salty or sour taste...
- Pickles (comic strip)Pickles (comic strip)Pickles is a daily and Sunday comic strip by Brian Crane focusing on a retired couple in their seventies, Earl and Opal Pickles. Inspired by Crane's in-laws, they find retirement life less than idyllic.The comic is set in Crane's hometown of Sparks, Nevada...
, a comic strip by Brian Crane - Pickles (dog)Pickles (dog)Pickles was a black and white Collie dog renowned for his role in finding the stolen Jules Rimet Trophy in 1966.- Overview :The trophy had been stolen during a rare public stamp exhibition at Westminster Central Hall, on the afternoon of Sunday 20 March, just four months before the 1966 FIFA World...
(died 1967), dog that found the World Cup trophy in 1966 - "Pickles" (SpongeBob SquarePants episode)
People
- Albert PicklesAlbert PicklesAlbert Pickles was an English association football player and manager. Born in Burnley, Lancashire he was an outstanding athlete in his school days and went on to play amateur football for Burnley Belvedere...
(1877–1958), English association football player and manager - Christina PicklesChristina PicklesChristina Pickles is an English actress, best known for her long-running role of Nurse Helen Rosenthal in the hospital drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for four Emmys.-Life and career:...
(born 1935), British born American actress - Christopher PicklesChristopher PicklesChristopher Stephen Pickles is an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1985 and 1992....
(born 1966), English cricketer - David PicklesDavid PicklesDavid Pickles is an English first-class cricketer, who played forty one matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1957 and 1960...
(born 1935), English cricketer - Eric PicklesEric PicklesEric Jack Pickles is a British Conservative Party politician. Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government of the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010....
(born 1952), British conservative politician - James PicklesJames PicklesJudge James Pickles was an English Circuit judge famed for his "no nonsense" approach and many controversial decisions, who later became a tabloid columnist.-Early life:...
(1925–2010), controversial British judge - Lewis PicklesLewis PicklesLewis Pickles, born at Wakefield, Yorkshire on 17 September 1932, was a cricketer who played as an opening batsman for Somerset for just over three seasons in the mid 1950s....
(born 1932), English cricketer - Vivian PicklesVivian PicklesVivian Pickles , is an English actress.She began her career as a child star after being chosen by Mary Field for a series of Saturday Morning children's films, including the lead roles in Jean's Plan and the serial The Adventures of Peter Joe...
(born 1931), English actress - Wilfred PicklesWilfred PicklesWilfred Pickles OBE was an English actor and radio presenter.Born in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Pickles was a proud Yorkshireman, and having been selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Regional radio service, went on to be an occasional newsreader on the BBC Home Service...
(1904–1978), English actor and radio presenter - William PicklesWilliam PicklesWilliam Norman Pickles was a British general practitioner and epidemiologist. He was the first president of the Royal College of General Practitioners.- History :...
(1885–1969), English epidemiologist
Fictional
- Pickles (Dethklok), member of the fictional band, Dethklok, from the cartoon series Metalocalypse
- Pickles Oblong, a character from the cartoon The Oblongs
- Tommy PicklesTommy PicklesThomas Malcolm "Tommy" Pickles is the main protagonist of the Nickelodeon animated television series' Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!. He is clad in only a T-shirt and a diaper and is bald with big, blank eyes. He translates everything adult into baby gibberish...
and Dil PicklesDil PicklesDylan Prescott "Dil" Pickles is a fictional character. He is the younger brother of Tommy Pickles, younger son of Stu and Didi Pickles, and younger cousin of Angelica Pickles in the Nickelodeon film The Rugrats Movie, who later appeared in the show Rugrats, on which the film is based, and its...
from the cartoon TV series Rugrats and All Grown Up! - Pickles, the wife of character Buddy Sorrell from the 1960s TV comedy The Dick Van Dyke ShowThe Dick Van Dyke ShowThe Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from October 3, 1961, until June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. It was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff....