this is literally a win-win for corporate america. stop including pickles by default, because most people don't want them anyway, but leave the option there and you can charge the same price for way less overhead. nobody loses anything, everyone wins.  and yet, nobody has done that yet. the official "statistics" show that there's a slight marjority (51/49) who dislike pickles over liking them. if that were the case, how many people really like pickles so much that they wouldn't just explicitly add them to the burger for free if they could? a good part of the 49% who don't hate pickles wouldn't even bother specifically adding them to their burger. thus, whatever burger chains are spending on pickles, this can be slashed by at least 51% if not far more with no negative impact or consequence to the business.  given that we have such an obvious place to cut corners, i had to start asking- who even likes pickles on their burgers? i can think of one friend i know who likes them and will ask you for them. i can think of 2 or 3 more who i think "might" like pickles, and i can think of dozens who just don't. so how did pickles get added onto burgers to begin with? as always, when asking "how" or "why" on /pol/, the answer is always "jews." jews used to own delis back in the day- it's an old stereotype, the jewish deli. deli owners would allow you to sample some of the meat (shocking for jews, i know, but stay with me) before buying it. when sampling multiple types of meat, you wanted a palate cleanser so that you could sample some meat and know what it tastes like proper. pickles were often used as the palate cleansers in delis, and thus pickles were associated with deli meats, and meats of all sorts, and it was a "natural" (re: jewish) part of evolution that associated serving meat with pickles.
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