What is the meaning of "hunger is the best pickle"?

Answer by  loosechickens (80)

It's another way of saying that food tastes better if you're hungry. When people ate bland diets of the same foods everyday, the addition of sharply flavored foods like pickles were really welcome. This saying is saying that hunger sparks up your enjoyment of the meal in the same way.

Answer by  tamarawilhite (17883)

Pickles and relish (pickled foods) were once used as spices to make whole grain breads eaten by the poor more palatable. Hunger makes one hungry for whatever one has and willing or eager to eat it. Thus hunger is the best relish, the best spice, the best additive to make all food taste good.