... evil thought: get angry about Americans assuming everywhere has pickles to the point i start pickle discourse, in an intentional attempt to starve worse, more harmful discourses of oxygen
so the response both here and on the old birdsite to the idea of "hey wait is it just the Americans who are that into pickles and making the false assumption that it's universal" is pretty overwhelming evidence in the affirmative.
I think we might have to break it to the Americans that the pickles obsession is a Them Specifically And Maybe Germany From Which The Practice Came thing and not a worldwide universal
This honestly confuses me because Spreewald gherkins are a plot point in Goodbye Lenin, like sure maybe they're not super popular but they do exist
The pattern from the responses I've seen is that pickled cucumbers are also a big thing in north-central thru eastern europe, which tracks a lot with US immigration history tbh
