At some point in my research into pickle-flavored, pickle-glazed and otherwise pickle-centered foodstuffs, I stumbled across a candy dubbed, quite prosaically, sour pickle balls. The product would ...

As the mountain of pickle-flavored snacks — or even funky-flavored pickles — piles up at our feet, I’m reminded by how neatly many of these products fall into two broad categories: those that are ...