Too many tasted like stagnant water, like pickling spices, or like vanilla flavorings added to water.

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And in a marvel of pre-industrial pickling, he would remain so, without withering, for the final two decades of his life.

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So in order to avoid pickling my liver and ending up like Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, this game has rules.

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When it gets too hot to turn on the oven and it seems as if there is more produce than there are family members to eat it, many home cooks turn to canning and pickling to preserve vegetables at their peak.

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Pereda sat down beside the well and kept himself busy brushing away the flies that were buzzing around everywhere, as if the yard were used for pickling meat, Pereda thought, although the only pickles he had encountered were the ones he used to buy many years ago at a store that imported them directly from England.

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