The grocery store’s new international food section has been filled up with more stuff. The Middle Eastern goods are now flanked by others from Poland and Finland.

Middle Eastern bulgur and halva, Polish jams, Finnish mustard and candy.

Somewhat bizarrely, each of the three sections allocates a fair bit of shelf yardage to their own kind of pickled cucumbers. And of course there are also Swedish-style pickled cucumbers further away in the usual canned goods section. Clearly each nation wants their pickled cucumbers just so and no other kind is good enough.