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Spreewald Gherkin Foodways

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Cucumbers grown on the fen and pickled with dill, mustard seed, horseradish and onion โ€” salt-brined, vinegar-pickled, mustard-pickled and a dozen other ways, under a protected designation since 1999. โš  THE MODERN INDUSTRY IS NINETEENTH-CENTURY AND LATER, and its scale is a GDR and post-1990 story; presenting the supermarket jar as ancient Sorbian tradition is marketing, not history.

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What is recorded

  • The Spreewald gherkin industry is nineteenth-century and later, and its present scale is a GDR and post-1990 development. It carries a protected designation as a regional product; that is not evidence of ancient Sorbian tradition, and the Spreewald is not a Sorbian-only region. documented

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