Trending Now
You’ve probably put a few dozen pickles slices atop your lunch meat on sandwiches throughout your lifetime. But did you know there was a time in America’s history when people ate sandwiches that contained just … pickles?
Yes, that’s right, pickle sandwiches, with nothing else except for maybe a little butter.
It’s true and that’s actually why some pickles are called “bread and butter” pickles. Mind blown!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Zh_GLHdT6/
These pickles sandwiches were cheap and easy to make, which is why they were a popular choice during the Great Depression.
Writes cookbook author Amy Thielen,
“Pickle sandwiches are born out of the farmhouse kitchen table.
The ever-present stack of sliced homemade white bread, the butter, the fermented dill pickles…it doesn’t take a scientific mind to put them together into a sandwich.”
See, it’s just that easy!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc6R2J8BNjS/
Other people prefer to make their pickle sandwiches with dill pickles, or some other form of fat, like cream cheese or peanut butter.
It seems like there would be a lot of flavors mixing together, but some people swear these combinations really work!
Have you ever thought of making a sandwich with just pickles and butter? What other seemingly strange sandwich concepts do you eat?
Let us know in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!
