The viral pickle sandwich trend has made it to Louisville. Here's where you can find it

Whether it's beer, ball, chips, ketchup, or shots, you could put pickle in front of all these words.

Items flavored, involved, or infused with pickles keep popping up.

You can now add something else to the pickle party: Sandwiches.

And, no, this does not reference pieces of pickles as a topping alongside meat and cheese.

Pickle sandwiches, in which slices of bread are replaced with two halves of a cored-out brined cucumber to hold your go-to ingredients, got picked as the latest viral food trend. Earlier this summer, the trend ticked up on TikTok, where a post about New York City-based Seven Brothers Gourmet’s pickle sandwich has been watched 4.5 million times.

Other videos, mostly featuring spots in New York City serving pickle sandwiches, followed.

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Those quickly caught the attention of Megan Boone and her five kids, some of whom are teenagers.

The “social media craze,” as Boone described it to the Courier Journal, seemed like a good fit to try at Boone’s Deli, the Jeffersontown spot she and her husband, Seth, opened in June.

But the Boone duo were hesitant.

“We’re busy enough as it is and we just opened,” Megan Boone said.

Then, their business began getting tagged in social media posts, requesting they bring pickle sandwiches to Louisville.

“They were saying, ‘If anyone in Louisville will do a pickle sandwich, it would be Boone’s Deli,’” she said.

So they did.

“We threw something together and threw something on Facebook and it just kind of exploded from there,” she said.

The pickle sandwich made its menu debut on July 30. About 250 orders were made in the next five days.

The most popular style, priced at $8, comes with banana peppers, house-made pickled red onions, pepperoni, salami, and provolone cheese, all stacked inside a sliced dill pickle.

For $6, patrons can order a pickle sandwich with turkey or ham, cheese, tomato, mustard and lettuce. Boone said that a vegetarian option would soon be added.

Announcing the pickle sandwich peppered in some buzz, with customers stopping by the deli interested in a carb-free sandwich or just grabbing a photo for social media.

“I think people were excited to see something like that had made its way to Louisville,” she said. “It’s fun and unique and there was nowhere else to get it here.”

Boone, a Louisville native, previously owned Gaslight Diner in Jeffersontown and Mac’s, a Neapolitan-style pizza kitchen inside Mile Wide Beer Co., 636 Barret Ave.

After briefly thinking she’d take a break from the restaurant industry, the opportunity came up to open something at 10414 Watterson Trail, a building owned by the next-door 3rd Turn Brewing.

“I think it’s just a great spot for the community to come together,” Boone said. “I think it was something the community needed.”

The deli, which serves a range of soups, sandwiches, house-made sides as well as kettle chips shipped in from New York, sees plenty of nurses, teachers, and others during lunch breaks as well as people looking for a bite while imbibing at the brewery.

The restaurant offers limited indoor seating in a room decorated with food-themed drawings from Boone’s 10-year-old kid, as well as a patio. Patrons can also take their orders over to 3rd Turn’s huge patio.

Born 2 Bagel, 231 Blankenbaker Parkway, is following the trend, too, as the place recently put a pickle sandwich on its menu called the “Kentucky Pickler.”

Boone expects the pickle sandwich to stay on the menu in the future.

“I think we’ll keep it for as long as people are buying them,” she said.

The Courier Journal featured Boone's Deli and the spot's pickle sandwich in the latest installment of our Instagram video series, called "Best Thing I Ate This Week." You can follow along by visiting Instagram.com/courierjournal.

Boone's Deli is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Boone's Deli in Jeffersontown serves viral pickle sandwich in Kentucky