If you want all the taste without the work, frozen artichoke hearts are quite good and a heck of a lot easier to work with. Once the artichokes are in the jar and covered with their pickling liquid, tuck the jar into the fridge and let it mellow for at least a day.f you want all the taste without the work, frozen artichoke hearts are quite good and a heck of a lot easier to work with. Once the artichokes are in the jar and covered with their pickling liquid, tuck the jar into the fridge and let it mellow for at least a day.
Nerf (trademarked in capitals as NERF) is a brand of toys currently owned by Hasbro. These toys are created for safe and/or indoor play that either shoots or is made of foam-like material. Most of...
1955, in nerf bars, hot-rodder slang for custom bumpers; from slang verb in auto racing (1953) meaning to nudge something with a bumper in passing and knock it off course; ultimate origin and signification unknown. As a trademark name for toys made of foam-like material for indoor play, introduced 1970 (Nerf ball). By 1995 this had yielded a verbal sense of to make less effective (as a Nerf basketball is softer and lighter than the real thing).