My dad had said don’t look, but I’d already seen him…

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

— Gail Carriger

“In the Spirit Building there are thousands upon thousands of jars containing fish or snake, octopus or lobster, pickled to the life. ... As…

— Richard Fortey

We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

— Sara Gruen

Pickled chillies are a must with wantan mee. I could eat a whole bowl of them - they're hot, salty, vinegary and sour all…

— Rachel Khoo

“From Soloviëv, Mady naturally turned to Berdyaev, and while speaking of Slavery and Freedom—the concept of Sobornost—she opened the jar of pickled herring.”

— Saul Bellow

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

— Sid Waddell

“Pickled onions had nothing to do with moral imagination, but were important in their own quiet, vinegary way, Isabel supposed.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in…

— John Steinbeck

I admit it, I do like pickled red onion. I made some the other day. You just slice up the onion, pull it apart…

— Rachel Khoo

A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my…

— Miriam Toews

“I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use…

— Marisha Pessl

“You’ve already learned, haven’t you, that a promise made is not always a promise kept? Just because someone is called your dad, that doesn’t…

— Max Lucado

There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his…

— Rick Riordan

I'm not allowed to date. My dad said so. Not until I'm, like, 90.

— Brooke Hogan

“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing…

— Dean Koontz