{"id":566359,"date":"2025-11-12T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:41:12","slug":"in-london-5-foot-papier-mache-gherkins-and-frickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566359\/","title":{"rendered":"In London, 5-foot papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 gherkins and &#8216;frickles&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">London sightseers were treated to 5-foot papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 gherkins and fried pickles as part of the Dog and Bell pub\u2019s 29th annual Pickle Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to \u201cfrickles,\u201d which are pickles cut into spirals, battered, and fried, festivalgoers were offered the chance to sample from 320 entrants in a \u201cbest pickle\u201d contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The competition originated in one bumper harvest when locals received more \u201cmarrows, courgettes, and onions\u201d than could possibly be eaten, prompting them to try to preserve as many as they could, the Dog and Bell\u2019s operator told The Londoner: The celebration has since swelled in size, allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-londoner.co.uk\/in-for-the-dill-at-the-29th-annual-pickle-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pickle-lovers to indulge while sipping pints and enjoying live music;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pickle-lovers to indulge while sipping pints and enjoying live music<\/a> \u2014 all in pursuit of providing \u201ccountry pub vibes in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/brendan-ruberry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brendan Ruberry;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brendan Ruberry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London sightseers were treated to 5-foot papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 gherkins and fried pickles as part of the Dog and Bell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,46012,4884,257,180049,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-566359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-fried-pickles","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-papier-mache","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115539141244323730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}