South Texans and San Antonians love their pickles. Danke schön, German immigrants
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The love for pickles runs deep in Texas.Paul Stephen / Staff
If you spend even a minute on Instagram, you can’t avoid a steady flow of pickle-based media streaming out of South Texas. Down here, those briney delights most commonly show up two ways: topping snow cones at the countless Mexican fruterías across the city and poured into pint glasses in the latest cool-kid beverage, pickle beer.
But Texans have been reaching into the barrel for all things pickled for two centuries, starting when German and other Eastern European settlers dropped roots here both figuratively and literally in the form of cucumber plants in the 1830s. Pickles have been a part of daily life here ever since.