Question: what is the difference between pickles and gherkins?
Answer: Now, a “pickle” is basically any vegetable that has undergone the process of pickling (using vinegar, water and salt). ... So, gherkins are pickles but pickles are not gherkins (just pickled cucumbers). It takes four or five hours to pickle a cucumber, but to pickle a gherkin - it could take up to 30 days.