Food writer Lena Abraham is trying to justify the travesty that is the chocolate-covered pickle by comparing it to salted caramel, but no. Just no. I understand that the juxtaposition of sweet and salty can be tasty, but a pickle covered in chocolate it just TOO FAR.
Chocolate? Tasty.
Pickles? Tasty?
Chocolate-covered pickles? Congratulations, you've ruined two perfectly good snack items.