Pickle, pickled or Pickles may refer to:

Food

* Pickle, a food that has undergone

pickling Pickling is the process of food preservation, preserving or extending the shelf life of food by either Anaerobic organism, anaerobic fermentation (food), fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar. The pickling procedure typically affects t ...

Pickled cucumber A pickled cucumber – commonly known as a pickle in the United States, Canada and Australia and a gherkin ( ) in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been Pickling, pickled in ...

* Pickle, a sweet, vinegary pickled chutney popular in Britain, such as

Branston Pickle Branston is an English food brand best known for the original Branston Pickle, a sweet pickle first made in 1922 in the village of Branston, Staffordshire, Branston near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, by Crosse & Blackwell. The Branston fact ...

, also known as "sweet pickle" or "ploughman's pickle" *

South Asian pickle South Asian pickles are a pickled food made from a variety of vegetables, meats and fruits preserved in brine, vinegar, edible oils, and various List of Indian spices, South Asian spices. The pickles are popular across South Asia, with many regi ...

, also known as ''achar'', savory condiments popular in South Asia

People

* Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell or "Pickle" (1725–1761), Scottish Jacobite who became a British government secret agent. * Marc-Édouard Vlasic or "Pickles" (born 1987), defenseman for the San Jose Sharks * Pickles Dillhoefer (1893–1922), American Major League Baseball catcher * Pickles Douglas (1886–1954), English cricketer and boxing referee * J. J. Pickle (1913–2005), United States representative from Texas * William H. Pickle, 37th United States Sergeant at Arms (2003–2007) * Alonzo H. Pickle (1843–?), Canadian-American soldier and member of the 1st Battalion Minnesota Infantry who fought in the American Civil War

Dogs

* Pickles (dog) (died 1967), a dog that found the stolen World Cup trophy in 1966 * Pickles (pickleball), a dog often cited as the name origin for the sport of pickleball * Mr. Pickles, the titular demonic dog in an American animated sitcom

Entertainment

* Pickle Rick, an episode of ''Rick and Morty'' * '' The Pickle'', a 1993 film * "The Pickle Song", an alternative title for "The Motorcycle Song" by Arlo Guthrie, appearing on ''Alice's Restaurant'' (1967) and '' The Best of Arlo Guthrie'' (1977), among others * "Pickles", a ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' season 1 episode * ''Pickles'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Brian Crane

Fictional characters

* Pickles (Dethklok), a drummer of Dethklok in ''Metalocalypse'' * The Pickles, a family in ''

Cloudstreet ''Cloudstreet'' is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Au ...

'' * Pickles, a character from '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'' * Pickles, a toy bunny from ''

Doc McStuffins ''Doc McStuffins'' is an animated children's television series created by Chris Nee and produced by Brown Bag Films. It aired for five seasons on Disney Jr. from March 23, 2012, to April 18, 2020. The series centers on a girl who fixes toys, w ...

'' * Pickles B.L.T, a character from the

Lalaloopsy Lalaloopsy is a line of plastic rag dolls from MGA Entertainment. Originally released in 2010 as Bitty Buttons, the brand name was changed to ''Lalaloopsy'' shortly after launch. They began to grow in popularity during the holiday season in 2010 ...

toy line * Pickles Oblong, a character from ''The Oblongs''

Places

* Pickles Creek, a stream in South Dakota * Pickles Reef, a coral reef in Florida

Software

* Pickle (app), a crowdsourced job app * Pickle (Python), a serialization computer library module

Sports and Games

Pickleball Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played i ...

, a racket sport ** Pickle or Pickled, losing a game of pickleball without scoring a single point * Pickle-in-the-middle, a three-person game *

Rundown In baseball, a rundown, informally known as a pickle, the Hotbox (baseball), hotbox, or goose chase is a situation that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two bases, also known as no-man's land, and is in jeopardy of being tag out, ...

or pickle, in baseball

Other uses

* HMS ''Pickle'', various ships of the British Royal Navy * University Tower (Durham, North Carolina), known as "The Pickle"