# Recent examples of new foods spreading and getting popular? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [May 29, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957 "2025-05-29T13:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/281 "2025-06-04T23:51:23Z")
On the subject of pickles- now they are selling just the juice as a beverage. Now yes, on hot days, quaffing some juice from a pickle jar could be thirst quenching- I gte that and sure that goes back a century. But just the juice?? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/282 "2025-06-05T00:00:19Z")
Imagine the poor factory worker who has to eat all of those pickles so the pickle juice is available for bottling. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/283 "2025-06-05T00:13:29Z")
They probably have them with a side of muffin bottoms. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/284 "2025-06-05T00:47:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Imagine the poor factory worker who has to eat all of those pickles so the pickle juice is available for bottling. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > They probably have them with a side of muffin bottoms. Okay you guys made me chuckle! ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/285 "2025-06-05T02:43:23Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I think the first time I ever heard of tacos was in the early 1970s, on “The Partridge Family.” '72 or '73 for me, at a friend’s house. This was in Illinois, north of Chicago. Not sure when I was introduced to burritos, but I was familiar with them by the time I arrived in Hawai`i in '86. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/286 "2025-06-05T02:48:39Z")
Jim Rockford ate tacos for breakfast. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/287 "2025-06-05T03:01:25Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Funny, I feel like the microbrewed-IPA trend of the last decade is fizzling out and pilsners are making a comeback, alongside kolschs and rice lagers and other “lighter” beers. And the younger generations don’t drink anymore or something? I dunno. No, I think it’s that so many craft microbreweries concentrated on IPAs, and ended up producing poor to mediocre product. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve had some exquisite IPAs from microbrewers, but I’ve had many more that ought to be poured down the drain. One local microbrewer produced a nice, tasty, and smooth pilsener that went down just fine on a hot day. They also produced an absolutely awful “pour down the drain” IPA. Guess which beer they heavily pushed? (Hint: They’re now out of business.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/288 "2025-06-05T03:10:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Deep fried pickles? Common appetizer fare when I was an undergrad. 1977-1981. Lucky you! I first encountered them in 1999, when I was in Texas for business. They didn’t make it to Canada for at least five or more years. At least, we have them now—hooray! ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/289 "2025-06-05T03:21:20Z")
They were selling them at a shop in a mall in Norfolk VA when I was there in '83. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/290 "2025-06-05T04:50:02Z")
Mixing pickle juice with lemonade is a current-ish thing. Pickle backs1 at bars has been a thing for a while now. Same with using pickle juice as a brine for fried chicken. 1 Meaning something you drink after doing a shot—basically a chaser. Not sure really why there’s different vocabulary for it. Maybe because it’s served in a shot glass. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/291 "2025-06-05T11:02:13Z")
Picklebacks have been around for at least 10 years now. I recall when I first heard of them not long after moving to greater Miami. Don’t see or hear of them much now, but I’m sure the local bartenders will still know what you mean if you ask for one with your [whatever]. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/292 "2025-06-05T11:42:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Picklebacks have been around for at least 10 years now. 2005, apparently. > **[Pickleback](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickleback)** > > A pickleback is a type of shot wherein a shot of liquor is chased by a shot of pickle brine; the term "pickleback" may also refer only to the shot of pickle brine itself. Alternatively, the shot can be chased by a bite of a pickle (generally, a whole dill pickle). The pickle brine works to neutralize both the taste of the liquor and the burn of the alcohol. > The first time the Pickleback shot was created and tested in a bar was in Bethlehem, PA in 2005 at Tally Ho. It was first made by Erin McCar... ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/293 "2025-06-05T11:54:27Z")
That’s interesting, because it seems the most common origin story I’ve found is that it was “invented” in 2006 at a bar in Brooklyn (Bushwick Country Club.) Like many things food-related, there are often competing origin stories. I personally would guess there was a bar well before either of those that served something like that somewhere in the US (but didn’t call it a “pickleback.”) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/294 "2025-06-05T19:48:54Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Mixing pickle juice with lemonade is a current-ish thing. Pickle backs1 at bars has been a thing for a while now. Same with using pickle juice as a brine for fried chicken. Oh sure, but as far as I know, they got their juice that same old way- from a jar of pickles. Having just the juice- no pickles- in a jar is something new afaik. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/295 "2025-06-05T20:05:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Having just the juice- no pickles- in a jar is something new afaik. “new” as of when? I can recall seeing pickleless pickle juice sold with the other mixers at the more extensive big box liquor stores 10 years ago. About the same time I first learned of pickleback itself. Which fad was then already 10 years old according to cites upthread. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/296 "2025-06-05T20:10:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > “new” as of when? New according to the OP, who used Avocado toast as an example- from 1993. So if 1993 is "new’ then 2014 oe so is very new. It is all relative. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/297 "2025-06-05T20:16:13Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Deep-fried pickles are another recent trend. Some say that it began in Arkansas. My first experience with fried pickles was in the late 80’s when a friend from Arkansas made them. It wouldn’t be until this century that I saw them in a restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/298 "2025-06-05T20:17:17Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I can recall seeing pickleless pickle juice sold with the other mixers at the more extensive big box liquor stores 10 years ago. I just noticed big jugs of pickle juice in our local Harris Teeter a few months ago. We like to add a bit to our instant ramen; gives nice bite to the soup. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957/299 "2025-06-05T20:52:01Z")
If you like pickle juice, give the juice from Trader Joe’s Hot & Sweet Jalapeños a try. Yum! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-examples-of-new-foods-spreading-and-getting-popular/1018957.md?page=14)