Appeared in France in the 16th century, where it is already consumed in salt and vinegar as a condiment, the pickle flourished in the Yonne valley from the second half of the 19th. Until the 1950s, the culture of the pickle was however only a extra side for families, who cultivated a few ranks in their vegetable patch and sold them to the conserving side of the 'Extra fi n', small and crunchy, which the French love.