How do you eat a pickle? Let me count the ways. You can crunch on a tangy kosher dill spread at a Jewish deli. You can dress up a burger, hot dog or sandwich with gherkin slices. If you’re really desperate, you can even just grab the briney vegetables straight out of the jar. And now, the latest food trend taking social media by storm adds another vehicle for consuming pickles: a fountain.
Yes, a pickle fountain. Think of a chocolate fountain, but replace the ooey-gooey liquid fudge cascading over multi-tiered wells with salty brine and floating pickles. Like so:
@goodbyetwenties Is there anything more beautiful than a pickle tower? #pickletok #picklesarelife #interestingthings #kitchengadgets
Unlike most trends of today, (as I’ve said before, I believe most are micro-trends and all micro-trends are occurring simultaneously) the pickle fountain has had staying power. The first evidence of the pickle fountain I’ve found online is an Instagram reel from German-speaking content creators, posted in mid-January of this year. Despite the fact that it seems they created the pickle fountain as a joke, it caught on. Bigger platforms from online creators Ana Romas and Bri Weimar to German pickle company Kühne and LADBible quickly created their own pickle fountains, which went viral. Over the course of 2025, many more online creators have made their own pickle fountains. They featured combinations of spears, chips and cornichons. Kosher dill, sweet and bread and butter pickles abound in their creations. Pickle fountains have even started to become fixtures at weddings and other celebratory events.
So… are pickle fountains Jewish? As far as I can tell, no Jewish food influencers have tried the pickle fountain. There also doesn’t seem to be a Jewish connection in popularizing pickle fountains. But insofar as pickles are a not-exclusively-Jewish-but-still-Jewish food, I think we can claim pickle fountains as part of a phenomena shared by all cultures who love a crunchy, fermented snack. But if pickle fountains started showing up at b-mitzvahs, Jewish weddings, Yom Kippur break-fasts, Purim parties and, who knows, maybe even a bris or two, the case for pickle fountains being a Jewish food trend would be even more kosher.
