This food holiday celebrates the pickle as a favorite fermented food. Sometimes tart, sometimes sweet, and maybe spicy, the pickle is available as dill, sweet, spears, bread and butter, and chips.
Pickle is derived from the Dutch word pekel, which means brine.
The practice of pickling has been around for thousands of years. Historical records suggest that ancient Egyptians were among the first to pickle cucumbers, which were imported from India, and notable figures like Cleopatra and Julius Caesar praised their health benefits.
National Pickle Day in the USA can be traced back to International Pickle Week, initiated by the National Pickle Packers Association in 1949. The annual November 14 Pickle Day in the USA was first observed in 2001