That means it is entirely possible that you could munch on 20 to 40 of these ships in one sitting if you are not paying attention, and consume the equivalent of two to four fresh pickles.
Would you really eat that many fresh pickles in one sitting?
my guess is that drying something, much like pickling something, is used as a method of preserving the given food. as a pickle is already preserved, you wouldn’t need to dehydrate it.
Seems like it would work particularly well with a sweet pickle, concentrating the vinegar and salt flavors is going to make them really strong, sweetness would help balance it out a bit.
I'd even consider making a custom batch with a lighter seasoning (like summer style fridge cucumbers), so it's more like cucumber chips with vinegar and salt.
Yknow it's weird. I love other pickled things. Hell, pickled onions are my favorite form of onions, and I love onion in general. But pickles? Disgusting. Can't stand them. The absolute worst.
In case serious. Before refrigeration and Air conditioning were invented, farmers wanted to keep their produce from going bad.
You had a few options, canning, bottling, pickling, salting, drying. Canning was invented 250 years ago or so. Bottling was a thing as long as bottles have been around, which is 500 or so years ago. Beyond that, the best way to ensure food doesn't grow bacteria or mold or whatever on it is to make the food inhospitable to microbial life, so by depriving it of water or putting something in it that prevents growth. So vinegar and salt.
That's why pickles are a thing. We now live in an age where food "just comes from the grocery or food kiosk or restaurant". Mostly due to improvements in technology. But food usually comes in seasons. Whether hunting, fishing or planting. Fruit cocktail canning is done over the course of a month in a year. 24 hours nonstop.
Cucumbers grow easily. Preserving them turns them into pickles.
If I remember correctly, the salad bar at Whole Foods has a topping that's dried dill pickles with some kind of seasoning on them. They're pretty tasty.