gherkins

Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...

Anon

When i was about 8 we went out for dinner with some friends and there were some gherkins on the table. i asked my mum what were they she said frogs legs. i still would never eat them even now i am 11 and i won't eat them

Topgirl9000

Up until 5 seconds ago, I had no idea wat a gherkin was

It's a little cucumber, stupid!

Upto now, (i am 26) I had thought gherkins was a british word for a type of clothing, i.e. a jacket or trousers or something

innocent

Up untill about a year ago I thought that pickles grew on a pickle tree or something!! I had no idea they were actually cucumbers, untill my mother told me.

Anon

Up until about two seconds ago, when I read someone else's post, I really had NO idea what a gherkin was. I thought it might be some sort of little animal, like a toad or something, or a fish.

Hahaha I'm Stupid.

I used to believe pickles were made out of alligators.

Andrew

OK, for th LONGEST time, i used to believe pickles just grew. i had no idea they were cucumbers. NO IDEA. i had seen cucumbers, i had seen pickles, but in my head, they had NO relation. so naturally, things like pickled eggs were made from the pickle plant. so i had no idea that pickles were actually cucumbers!

moosey fate

Until very recently, I believed that pickles were cucumbers that had gone bad. I'm 22. A few years before that, I thought they were a separate veggie that grew on their own, until a family member corrected me otherwise. My friends and fiance has not let me live it down since!

~Kitten~

Growing up in America, I always knew gherkins as pickles. When I was around 12 I heard the word gherkin, and I thought it was a sex toy or a dirty word of some sort. I didn't find out otherwise until very recently, I'm ashamed to say.

Anon

I used to think a gherkin was some sort of sea creature so when I asked what was on my burger I was shocked to find out it was actually a vegetable

HaN

One day as a child, my mother and I were sitting down to eat in a small diner. I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich which came with a pickle. I picked up the pickle and asked my mother, "Mommy, what animal do pickles come from?"

True Carnivore

until 5 mins ago i didnt no gerkins and pickles were the same thing i thought they were completley different..........

x[k][t]x

The only reason I found out that pickles were actually cucumbers... was watching Veggie Tales with my seven-year-old sister. She kept insisting it was and I kept telling her to shut up because she didn't know what she was talking about. Imagine her triumphant glee when she found out that I found out I was wrong! I had to have been about tweleve at the time and thought they were some type of mutated green vegetable that grew on the ocean floors...

Gotta be... VEGGIE TALES!!!

When I was 19 I found out that pickles don't, in fact, grow on trees as I had always thought. I picked up a short little cucumber and said "Gee, this is just about the size of a pickle" and had to sit through my boyfriend's entire family laughing at me.

Anon