When do pickles become a condiment? OR: do they ever?

[God]

Now people eat pickles whole all the time. But when they are cut into small pieces they are used only on sandwiches really, and that makes them condiments. BUT, they are still pickles no matter how they are cut. Can you call something a totally different order of food due to the way it is processed even though it is infact the same food?

[Mex]

Pickles might be in a category of condiment/food all their own. Pickles are the aardvarks of the food world

[God]

i honestly dont know what side to take. i wish there was more debate out there.

[Nanaki]

I have no comment as I don't like nor hate pickles

[Star]

I love pickles. I think the sliced ones that come in a bottle are condiments.

[The Lacemaker]

It's not a matter of the like or dislike, although I would never accept pickles into my codiments rack. Pickles don't add more of a flavour as a style of seasoning but I would consider them more as a seperate filling on its own. And you can eat pickles on their own as well as in sandwiches, whilst generally you wouldn't eat a packet of ketchup alone or any other common condiments. Because they're simply finely diced it wouldn't quite qualify as a condiment until it were some sort of pickly mush.

[Midnight the dark Espeon]

It's not a matter of the like or dislike, although I would never accept pickles into my codiments rack. Pickles don't add more of a flavour as a style of seasoning but I would consider them more as a seperate filling on its own. And you can eat pickles on their own as well as in sandwiches, whilst generally you wouldn't eat a packet of ketchup alone or any other common condiments. Because they're simply finely diced it wouldn't quite qualify as a condiment until it were some sort of pickly mush.

I have...Am I the only one?
But pickles...deserve their own side of a food pyrimid...

[Jason854]

It's not a matter of the like or dislike, although I would never accept pickles into my codiments rack. Pickles don't add more of a flavour as a style of seasoning but I would consider them more as a seperate filling on its own. And you can eat pickles on their own as well as in sandwiches, whilst generally you wouldn't eat a packet of ketchup alone or any other common condiments. Because they're simply finely diced it wouldn't quite qualify as a condiment until it were some sort of pickly mush.

30 PACKETS OF KETCHUP!!!!!

[The Lacemaker]

has Jason834 just marked the revival of the condiments forum?

[pichubro]

mighty bump

[ninja]

A tomato transforms from fruit/vegetable/thing into a condiment when it is blended, why not the same for pickles? Allbeit pickles are not blended, they are sliced, much like the tomato you can find on any Big Mac.

That said, are sliced tomatoes and lettuce considered condiments when they are placed on a sandwich?

[The Lacemaker]

that's just sacrilege. who would possibly consider lettuce and tomatoes to be condiments?

[Jason854]

Pickles never do become a condiment unless you blend a pickles and add things[flavorings and preservatives;same rule goes for tomatoes and mustard seeds.

[The Lacemaker]

my point exactly! By slicing a pickle up you're doing nothing but making the pickle smaller, it's a simple physical change. a pickle's still a pickle. BUT in the case of relishes, the pickle's state has been changed by suspending it in a sauce, flavouring, whatever, and used as a condiment to complement the sandwich. when sliced pickles are used in sandwiches they are their own filling altogether. see, this guy gets me!

[Hicky]

you should have sex with him

[The Lacemaker]

MAYBE I WILL

[xxeliza321xx]

LOL

[Jason854]

Sorry, I live in earths core where no one can reach me.

[Kirby]

never condiments are mostly liquids or either finely diced or powdered