In Wisconsin I grew up on pickled cucumbers (cucumbers, onion, sugar, and vinegar). I love them! So does my daughter. I make them in the summer. I know that you can actually pickle them and store them, but I like them cold the day after they've been mixed and soaked.



>>>>I was allergic to yolk, mustard and gunpowder smoke. Nothing big, I'd get a bit of a rash in a couple of places, or my palms would itch and redden. It would go away in a day. The gunpowder was funny to find out - we had those little toy guns with a paper tape and a bit of gunpowder between the layers of paper, and the hammer would hit it and ignite it, with a nice bang and a bit of smoke. Seems to be I got a particle in the corner of my eye, and that's how we found out.
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>>>We call then cap-guns. Nowadays the gangstas have ruined that by referring to "popping caps" in each others' @sses. That's what we used to do as kids (though we aimed at each others' torsos :-)
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>>>So you didn't get on with mayo then?
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>>There wasn't any when I was a kid. I think I first tried it when I was about 15 or so.
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>Nor when I was - considered exotic foreign delicacy :-) We did have "salad cream" - a sort of ersatz mayo. Nowadays I can't imagine having a sandwich without it.
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>BTW back in those days all hands used to make salads un-mixed. The cucumber for some magic reason would be in a wee bowl drenched in vinegar (God knows why!). There are older generation who do this still. Maybe it was cos lemons (or ready-bottled LJ) weren't so common, and this was the 2nd best thing to dressing in lemon. But that begs the question: why not all the other salad stuffs?