“Relish” is a pickled sauce, and it also means to eat with pleasure. “I relish pickles” was posted on Twitter by Jessa Sparks on March 26, 2010, and on Reddit—Oneliners on May 3, 2019.
Wiktionary: relish
Noun
relish (countable and uncountable, plural relishes)
1. A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
2. Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
3. A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
4. A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
5. In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
6. Something that is greatly liked or savoured.
Verb
relish (third-person singular simple present relishes, present participle relishing, simple past and past participle relished)
1. (transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of [from 16th c.]
2. (transitive) to take great pleasure in.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour. [16th-19th c.]
4. (transitive) To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeable, to make appetizing. [from 16th c.]
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To give pleasure.
Twitter
Jessa Sparks
@jessasparks
@marshmellow1328 I relish pickles
8:33 PM - 26 Mar 2010
Twitter
Rob Graham
@Spidey004
You know what I relish? Pickles, mostly.
10:22 AM - 28 Jun 2010
Twitter
Greg Rannells
@gregrannells
i relish pickles….and relish! http://twitpic.com/2bnsw1
7:59 PM - 4 Aug 2010
Twitter
designertalks
@designertalks
I relish pickles.
1:26 AM - 14 Jul 2011
Twitter
Jessica Fouse
@JessFouse
I RELISH PICKLES 🍴
10:01 PM - 4 Jan 2013
Twitter
Aaron K Smith
@mrgadflybuzz
I relish pickles.
9:09 AM - 22 Mar 2014
Twitter
kara
@kara_k_s
Pickle are my jam.
Pickle jam is relish.
I relish pickles.
#PicklePower
11:57 PM - 1 Mar 2019
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/webguy1975 May 3, 2019
I relish pickles
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