To me they are both cornichons (revisited the picture from Koes).
This can is about the size of my hand and there are two cornichon layers.
Obviously those are Turkish mutant conichons, they don’t count 
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Those are on steroids
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Nah, TRT. Doctor prescribed. Promise.
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Yeah, have had them in sandwiches, where they worked well.
Here we most often use thinly sliced, pickled cucumber (name “cucumber salad” for some reason). That is very good in roast pork burgers.
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You sure? - can’t really see their jawline in that photo…
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I get a good chuckle out of the fact that this is a “hardcore training site” and instead of discussing deadlifts, we just had 18 posts about pickled cucumbers.
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It’s because of their raw anabolic power. I find all cucumbers disgusting - it’s a fallic shaped abomination.
…Probably why I’m so weak!
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Damn it! I missed out on all the fun
I loved pickled cucumbers, but pickled daikon is better
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As always: if @anna_5588 will eat it, it means I shouldn’t.
So that’s a hard pass from me.
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Never seen that before.
But I will agree with Dagill here, lol.
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I honestly have no idea what that is unless you give me the name in the Hokkien or Teochew dialect lol. I’m not even sure I know what it is in Mandarin.
I’m with @dt79 on this. Gua bwe hiao kong nanangwe la
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16.01.
2,5 hour walk. Was great!
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How did the date go?
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Not ignoring you, I will get back to this later.
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1 oh squats
3 x 5 @ 70 kg
2 deadlift
3 x 5 @ 170 kg
Dialed back in anticipation of heavy pulls later in the week.
3 vertical jump
5 x 3
4 cdb strict press
3 x 11 @ 29 kg
5 hollow hold
4 x 40 sec @ 2x5 kg
Notes:
- this might be the first reported case ever of a weight feeling lighter and faster than it looked on camera, haha. Set 1 was a little messed up (shoulders too far back behind the bar but second was money). Set 3 was a funny one but not necessarily in a bad way. I was in a dark headspace (I mean I’m in one most of the time one way or another) and my body rebelled a bit against training today. So I turned on auto pilot and went anyway (a lot of things in my life work that way). Before set 3 I was kinda able to wake myself up and focus better. Since I have a habit of treating light weights as such instead of going full force (coach’s email said “lift with intent!”) I literally whispered to myself “with intent, with intent, with intent…”. I skipped a few lockouts and the set before had arguably better quality but somehow I now know I will absolutely smash my heavy deadlifts out of the park.
- easy session
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The girl is pretty, smart and funny. The date was pretty good. Corona conform we went on a 3 hour walk during which we had a good conversation and a lot of laughs. For the end I prepared some hot cocoa which we sipped together when I dropped her off at her place. She agreed to see me again and said it was really nice. It’s difficult to communicate via text in the meantime. We don’t share a common ground yet, I am not overly creative in that department and she doesn’t give me a lot to work with either. That said we are going to see each other again tomorrow. Which is the first second date for me in a really really long time. Since texting is presenting itself as difficult, I wanted to have a second date as soon as possible.
So all in all a positive experience. I am not reacting according to that, which is in tune with some observations I have gathered about me lately. Usually if something good happens to me (like let’s say a pleasant weekend), I will “react” by feeling all the worse for it a day later/ the following days.
So I have been dealing with a lot of self doubt, self hate, anxiety and depression (all things I am dealing with anyway but in a super charged fashion). The day after our date I was paralyzed with negative feelings (that is to be taken a lot more literal than most people would imagine). As I said, nothing too surprising but since I know of this disfunctionality, I know to not take it as an indicator for how I feel about the date itself, you know?
Anyways, I say lets just see where this is going and accept either outcome as a positive experience.
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Great news and a great way to look at it, nice to see that you’re self aware enough to know that your reaction to the date isn’t a true reflection of that date.
Also don’t get too comfortable with those deads, it’s a hard enough gap to close as it is without you being in a good spot training wise!