My favorite pickle-related memory is of a vendor carrying around a 3 or 5 gallon bucket of pickles at a renaissance festive hawking his pickles by singing “who let the pickles out” to the tune of “who let the dogs out” by the baha men whilst banging the lid of the pickle bucket like a drum.
My kid makes pickle popsicles out of pickle juice. I bought her a 10 gal container of dill pickles at Cosco one year as a joke for christmas. Took her a while but she ate them all and used all the juice making popsicles. Likely totally unhealthy… no doubt deserved bad mom of the year for that.
Actually, pickle juice is an excellent hydrator (for adults). I would not give it to infants or young kids without asking someone who knows about that.
Full of electrolytes.
Stops leg cramps close to instantly.
The NFL and many other sports league keep pickle juice in quantity on the sidelines for all practices and games.
@Kidsandliz salt is an electrolyte. it is essential for water retention. this is why they put salt packets in aid kits and MREs for soldiers. in an emergency heat casualty situation, the salt packet is often fed to the ailing soldier with fluids to reduce water loss.
While I enjoy a good dill pickle as much as anyone (sweet pickles are right out), the pickle’s most glorious achievement came as an object of art and illumination. Courtesy of the Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Lab (DECWRL): PDF: Characterization of
Organic Illumination
Systems
Got to love a technical paper that references
Beatrix Potter.
Ginger & Pickles.
Frederick Warne, London, 1909.
@duodec In my endeavors to discover and exploit new electro-optics technologies I find the electroluminescence of organic systems very interesting. Typical technologies center on synthetic diamond substrates excited by electron bombardment of photons generated by a charged coupler. However, pickle light generated via plasma excitation through a direct electrical heat source is, brilliant, and, unlike most of my experiments you can eat the test article when you’re finished. I’m going to try the Black Olives. They are tasty on a pizza too.
Oh yeah and then there is a good use for the big wooden pickle barrels. Mark Twain said something along the lines of when a kid turns 13 you put them in a pickle barrel and feed them through the knothole. When they are 16 you seal up the knothole. He failed to mention when you take them out. Mine I clearly liberated too soon.
I took my 80 year old Father to a baseball game this past Summer, and I’m pretty sure he had more fun eating this huge pickle than he did watching the game.
Yesterday, when it was still Pickle Day, I found an unopened bag of Kettle Brand Krinkle Cut Dill Pickle Chips which I had bought a while ago and totally forgotten about. BEST dill pickle chips ever. Thank you, pickle gods.
/giphy pickles
My favorite pickle-related memory is of a vendor carrying around a 3 or 5 gallon bucket of pickles at a renaissance festive hawking his pickles by singing “who let the pickles out” to the tune of “who let the dogs out” by the baha men whilst banging the lid of the pickle bucket like a drum.
@medz I bought a pickle from a vendor at the last renaissance fair I went to. It was good.
@sammydog01 yeah they are! So crunchy and refreshing. Best bang for your buck.
@thismyusername That was a great episode
/giphy pickle dance
/giphy tickle my pickle
My kid makes pickle popsicles out of pickle juice. I bought her a 10 gal container of dill pickles at Cosco one year as a joke for christmas. Took her a while but she ate them all and used all the juice making popsicles. Likely totally unhealthy… no doubt deserved bad mom of the year for that.
/image pickle popsicle
@Kidsandliz
Actually, pickle juice is an excellent hydrator (for adults). I would not give it to infants or young kids without asking someone who knows about that.
Full of electrolytes.
Stops leg cramps close to instantly.
The NFL and many other sports league keep pickle juice in quantity on the sidelines for all practices and games.
Unsweetened coconut water is also good for this.
@f00l but way too much salt.
@Kidsandliz salt is an electrolyte. it is essential for water retention. this is why they put salt packets in aid kits and MREs for soldiers. in an emergency heat casualty situation, the salt packet is often fed to the ailing soldier with fluids to reduce water loss.
@Kidsandliz
If you ever have night leg cramps, you will be glad about having pickle juice around.
I worry about the salt in other stuff.
Child wasn’t drinking pickle juice all day long I hope.
Btw it also contains lots of potassium I think. Need to check. BTW potassium is what makes it so useful perhaps?
@meh
/image it’s what plants crave
While I enjoy a good dill pickle as much as anyone (sweet pickles are right out), the pickle’s most glorious achievement came as an object of art and illumination. Courtesy of the Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Lab (DECWRL): PDF: Characterization of
Organic Illumination
Systems
Got to love a technical paper that references
Beatrix Potter.
Ginger & Pickles.
Frederick Warne, London, 1909.
@duodec In my endeavors to discover and exploit new electro-optics technologies I find the electroluminescence of organic systems very interesting. Typical technologies center on synthetic diamond substrates excited by electron bombardment of photons generated by a charged coupler. However, pickle light generated via plasma excitation through a direct electrical heat source is, brilliant, and, unlike most of my experiments you can eat the test article when you’re finished. I’m going to try the Black Olives. They are tasty on a pizza too.
@accelerator
Pix?
@accelerator i never wanted to eat the pickle after it was lit. It doesn’t smell very good.
If you used black olives would you produce organic blacklight?
@f00l
/youtube pickle electricity
Oh yeah and then there is a good use for the big wooden pickle barrels. Mark Twain said something along the lines of when a kid turns 13 you put them in a pickle barrel and feed them through the knothole. When they are 16 you seal up the knothole. He failed to mention when you take them out. Mine I clearly liberated too soon.
@Kidsandliz When they are able to self-extricate they are ‘adults’ for certain values of the term.
@duodec Now that is a thought LOL
I took my 80 year old Father to a baseball game this past Summer, and I’m pretty sure he had more fun eating this huge pickle than he did watching the game.
@tohar1 Maybe it was the pickle, or maybe, just maybe, he was having fun being out with [one of] his kid[s]. Fathers are funny that way.
/youtube pickle rick
i like extra pickles on my hamburgers.
/giphy "Tickle my pickle"
/youtube pickle surprise
Yesterday, when it was still Pickle Day, I found an unopened bag of Kettle Brand Krinkle Cut Dill Pickle Chips which I had bought a while ago and totally forgotten about. BEST dill pickle chips ever. Thank you, pickle gods.