Mixologists are no strangers to pickles but the ingredient is finally getting a "star turn" on drinks menus everywhere, said The Independent . The liquid is being used to add a "zing" to an array of cocktails from martinis to margaritas.

"Pickles have become a defining food of Gen Z," said Ben Sixsmith in The Spectator , and the juice left over from humble jars of gherkins has been inspiring all sorts of "eccentric" concoctions.

"Well, excuse me," said Victoria Moore in The Telegraph , "but if you want to meet the real pickle generation then look at us Gen X-ers, who celebrated our single-digit birthdays with pickled onions on cocktail sticks stuck into a foil-covered orange." We've been feasting on cornichons for decades; using the leftover juice to "add piquancy to drinks isn't a

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