Wednesday 4 January 2012

Gherkin

As I ate fois gras with Mrs Acular and the Twins Aculae earlier today, we pondered why the gherkin always appears in certain 'culinary offerings'. Take a bite, spit it out - for a gherkin rests within. Why?

I'll tell you why.

Because the McDonalds Corporation is doing me a favour. And let me explain.

Ronald McDonald doesn't just buy a peck of pickled cucumbers, but rather an entire GDP of pickled cucumbers. They do so in order to enhance the experience of the Big Mac eater. And glad we are too. Except that I have never met a soul who doesn't be-grease his or her fingers in the extraction of the slimy green disc of gammy sludge that resides between the nasty dayglo mustard and the wangy cheese that has no more seen a cow than my gerbils. Such is the accepted architecture of the modern burger, a la McDonalds. We all loathe them, we all pick them out, but yet the Golden Arches clan continues to insinuate gherkins into the heart of the English Burger. 

Better that they are though.

The thing is, if McDonalds stop putting gherkin into my burger, the great Gherkin Conglomerate in deepest Gherkinland would, in a trice, go out of business. That would generate a specific and calculated response from Christian organisations, each desiring to keep the gherkin industry afloat.

With the sweep of a dozen committees and the issuing of a dozen more edicts, we would all become Fair Gherkin Churches, members together of Fair Gherkin Dioceses.

Then, instead of the noble Sunday morning coffee, we'd all be committed to sup gherkin juice ... for God.

So, McDonalds - know now that we delight in you putting gherkins into your food. If you didn't, people like me would have coffee mornings to save the green perils. 


10 comments:

  1. But, but, but...!!! I LOVE gherkins, David, but whole ones, not the horrible little slices and they have to have been properly pickled. :-) Save the gherkin and ban the Big Mac!

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  2. Where do you come up with this uproarious stuff? I will never visit McDonald's again without reflecting on "slimy green disc of gammy sludge that resides between the nasty dayglo mustard and the wangy cheese".

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  3. The good thing about McDonald's veggie burger is no Gherkin.

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  4. Oh, dear... Gherkin lover here! They're why I still occasionally give in to the Bigmac urge! Then again, maybe that's the problem. Thx for the giggle!

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  5. I cannot conceive of anything more revolting than supping gherkin juice.

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  6. Maybe not gherkins, but I love the small French-style cornichons. A pile of those with some pate or proscuitto, butter, and crusty bread. Mmmmmm.

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  7. In Corsican restaurants, every plate of charcuterie and/or pâté comes equipped with a gherkin or two at the side. Note that, at the side. So we gherkin haters may happily pass over our gherkins to the gherkin lover at the other side of the table, and everyone is happy, and we don't all have to start sipping gherkin juice ...

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  8. The Churchwarden6 January 2012 at 11:05

    Looks like you're on your own, Rev!

    (Are McDs doing the foie gras burger again now? Is it still 99p?)

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  9. I live in Florida...haven't eaten or desired a Mickie D hamburger in years and years...so I say "I'll pass on the fake hamburger...you may pass your Gherkin on to me!" I'm sitting at the table over in the corner with a fantastic view of....well something!

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