# Do pickles need to 'swim' in their juice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pickles-need-to-swim-in-their-juice/552119>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** soda-softdrinks\
**Created:** [August 31, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pickles-need-to-swim-in-their-juice/552119 "2010-08-31T13:02:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pickles-need-to-swim-in-their-juice/552119/21 "2010-09-01T17:36:14Z")

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[QUOTE=sassyfras;12866143

Please spare me your very lengthy (who is being retentive now?) reductio ad absurdum logical fallacy, which you use to make yourself feel superior. As if not wanting pickle juice, and drying them off in a matter of a second, was some kind of psychological syndrome! What an insulting person you are, or at least a pretend insult.

Do you also simply place lettuce after washing it on a plate, and mix the dressing with the water left over still on the leaf?

Check out my thread about what is high class and low class – and enjoy your pickle juice. Your taste is as good as your manners.

_Though I admit it is low class to have pickles at all . . ._[/QUOTE]

Wash the lettuce? For real?

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**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pickles-need-to-swim-in-their-juice/552119/22 "2010-09-01T17:42:18Z")

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> [@sassyfras](#):
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> Do you also simply place lettuce after washing it on a plate, and mix the dressing with the water left over still on the leaf?

No, just give it a quick shake. Do you dry each leaf individually?

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-pickles-need-to-swim-in-their-juice/552119/23 "2010-09-01T17:48:01Z")

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> [@sassyfras](#):
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> Please spare me your very lengthy (who is being retentive now?) reductio ad absurdum logical fallacy, which you use to make yourself feel superior. As if not wanting pickle juice, and drying them off in a matter of a second, was some kind of psychological syndrome! What an insulting person you are, or at least a pretend insult.

Methinks you’ve been whooshed. “The Anal Retentive Chef” was a funny Saturday Night Live character of the late great Phil Hartman.

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