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Gerd:<BR>
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</BLOCKQUOTE>>I mean, you don't harvest pickles, do you? You first harvest<BR>
>cucumbers and then pickle them, I would imagine. Even in the rural parts.<BR>
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In most grocery store produce sections (in the States, anyway) there are bins that feature the large salad cucumber, while often there are other bins containing what are usually called pickling cucumbers, which are smaller and thinner skinned than the salad variety. Both are cucumbers, but the salad variety would make a poor pickle, while the latter is particularly suited to pickling.<BR>
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I don't know this for sure, but it may be that Barks, who had agricultural experience, found that American growers did refer to pickling cucumbers as pickles, and that the harvest of these was called the "pickle crop".<BR>
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