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(7,530 posts)Ground or sliced almonds are often also added.
Believe me, if it had anything to do with pickle I'd steer far away.
I watched a video, it's basically sugar cooked to the soft ball stage, flavored with ghee and cardamom, then pulled like taffy and looped and folded and stretched over and over until it starts breaking instead of stretching into what looks like Rapunzel's blond hair. Then it is fluffed and separated into strands which are packed like spaghetti into a mold or a tray and compressed and allowed to dry.
When you eat it, it falls apart into threads or flakes which melt on the tongue.
Here's a picture of three people working together stretching it as it approaches the "hairlike" stage.
As I said, it's the most unusual thing I've tasted and can only describe as "delicious edible fiberglass insulation".