# Unhand my Pickle! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 10, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679 "2003-01-10T04:08:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/41 "2003-01-11T00:59:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DanielWithrow \* > **When someone asks you, “Are you gonna eat that pickle?”…** “If I even _think_ you’re reaching for my pickle I’ll stab your hand to the table with the spoon handle.” ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/42 "2003-01-11T01:18:56Z")
::runs for the jar of Ba-Tampte garlic dills in the fridge:: Mmmmmm. . .pickles. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/43 "2003-01-11T01:19:41Z")
Picklenappers deserve to go through life maimed, the tendons in their thieving hand severed by the fork of one defending said pickle. For pure bliss, check out a really _good_ kosher deli. (I’m channeling here on _Izzy’s_ in Cinti.) The sammiches are lucious–piles of hot pastrami or corned beef on dark rye–but each table has little crocks of pickles. GREAT pickles; crunchy, salty kosher dills. As well as crocks of crunchy sauerkraut, of course. A salt lover’s dream. But I’m in mourning for a delicacy I haven’t seen since childhood, true food of the gods: \*\* _dill pickle chip dip_\*\*. It was splendid; the salty tang of lots of tiny dill pickle chunks, combined with cool, slightly tart sour cream and…? I haven’t been able to reproduce it exactly. A titch of cream of tartar was okay but not quite right; a spinkle of garlic salt was good but not authentic; a dab of Hellman’s mayonnaise was getting there but still not quite exact. Sigh. I’ll take pickles over chocolate any day. Veb ---
**Author:** ![DeskMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DeskMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeskMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/44 "2003-01-11T01:53:44Z")
. . . mmmm . . . pickles . . . I just now finshed a small stack of cornichon pickles (those teeny tiny little dill picklettes). I have to eat pickles along with the food, otherwise all of the food won’t taste like pickles. But I always save a big bite of pickle for last. To me, hamburgers are just a tool to shove ketchup and pickles down my gullet. I have to admit that I very carefully watch anyone eating a burger with warm pickle slices on it. I’ve been known to picklenap, but only from people I love because I know they understand my sickness. I’ve been good lately and now I always ask before I actually reach into peoples hamburgers to retrieve the salty, vinegary treasure. When I was little, my dad would always by me one of those big deli pickles when I behaved in the grocery store. I was always very good at the grocery store. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/45 "2003-01-11T05:33:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Billdo \* > \*\*Having just finished my pickle with my lunch, I though this would be a good time to respond. > > I could understand your concern were it actually your pickle, but it was set out on a plate between us as a communal pickle, not specifically designated for either of the diners. Were it indeed your pickle, I would have been entirely in the wrong, but you had made no move to establish you dominion or control over the pickle. > > Even though it was an unclaimed pickle, I slowly and dramatically swooped my hand down toward the pickle, so that you would have a last chance to assert rights over the pickle. And, I may add, you took that opportunity. > > I was only seeking to avoid the dreadful shame of pickle wastage that would have occured if neither of us had claimed the pickle. I wuz innocent, I swear. \*\* A likely story. :rolleyes: And I suppose that when you buried her doll way back when… you really thought it was DEAD? 😃 I am the most fortunate pickle person I know, in that none of my friends like pickles. Therefore, I not only get to eat MY pickles, I get to eat THEIR pickles as well!!! Worship me…I am blessed with pickle hating friends! [sub]I must LIVE right or something…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DwGrumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@DwGrumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DwGrumby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/46 "2003-01-11T05:49:30Z")
I am one of those anti-pickle-people! I **hate** pickles. On any fast food trip, I don’t ask for McD’s to “hold the pickle.” I figure I’m going to have to check under the bun to be sure it’s gone anyways, so this way one of my friends gets an extra! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/47 "2003-01-11T06:07:23Z")
You people don’t have dill pickle chips?!? And you call yourselves a civilized nation! You do have ketchup chips, right? ( **TVeblen** , dill pickle chip dip is a grocery store staple here in Canada - in fact, I think I’m going to go buy some tomorrow. :D) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/48 "2003-01-11T06:27:30Z")
Blech. You can have all of my pickles. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/49 "2003-01-11T06:27:57Z")
When I went to movies with my friends or family they always bought candy and popcorn. I bought those “Jumbo Ice Cold Pickles”. Nectar of the Gods. Pickles and Peanut Butter um! ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/50 "2003-01-11T06:43:49Z")
Mr. tlw claims to have married me because I can make pickles. And I do make pickles. Once a month, like clockwork, I make two gallons of dill pickles, and a quart of sweet pickles, and even a quart of pickled mushrooms. Mmm, pickles. As a weird aside: when I was pregnant, I couldn’t stand ‘em. Mr. tlw had to suffer through several pickle-free months because the idea of making – let alone eating – a pickle was fairly nauseating. So much for that old wives’ tale. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/51 "2003-01-11T07:02:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joey G \* > \*\*Pickle thieving bastards will be first against the wall when the revolution comes. > > I hate pickle thieves! They should all be soaked in vinegar and then left on a plate somewhere to die, with a toothpick stuck through their chest. \*\* As long as the toothpicks have the frilly tinsel on the end, I’m with ya. Personally, I like [Gedney](http://www.gedneypickle.com) pickles-mmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/52 "2003-01-11T07:46:28Z")
Oh man… you people keep giving me cravings… Lovely tuna wraps filled to the brim with tuna, cheese and pickles… Subway subs with _extra_ pickles… dill pickle chips (Lays btw 😃 )… dill pickle dip… if it wasn’t so late and I didn’t live in a bad area I’d hoof it to the sev right now for some! My Grandma used an interesting recipe last time she made pickles. Polish Dill’s… a cross between dill and bread and butter. I prefer the dill, even though those weren’t bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/53 "2003-01-11T09:13:58Z")
Quench The Craving! [Goldin Pickle Juice](http://www.goldinpickle.com/JuiceWhat.htm). You people are all sick. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/54 "2003-01-11T11:59:02Z")
**bristlesage** pickles would be fantastic! Thank you _ever_ so much for the offer. You are too kind. Perhaps we can… erm… _arrange_ something… When I lived briefly in Greenwich, Ct, there was a deli that I frequented just for its pickles. They were not only huge but were the best tasting pickles I’d ever had. At 50 cents (IIRC) per pickle, my craving was satisfied frequently. Does anyone else do this with their huge pickles? Keep in mind I’m a tad weird anyway… I like to eat the top off the pickle, then give it nice little squeezes, popping the seeds out and eating those first. Once the seeds are out, eat the rest of the pickle. Of course, just eating it is joy in and of itself. _sighs_ Sure do with I had a deli pickle right now… Oh, and **Kal** , darlin hubby, pickle breath is the least of your worries. With the amount of onion and garlic I eat (no such thing as too much garlic), a bit of pickle beath is nuttin 😛 From **Dijon Warlock’s** Golden Pickle Juice link: > [@](#): > > And, if it’s proven to be an aphrodisiac we may have to increase our production capacity above the current 100 trailerloads per week! This is why: > [@](#): > > The inclusion of 20% of the RDA of zinc makes it an excellent source of that mineral along with the addition of 1% of the RDA of the mineral potassium. Zinc is one of those minerals supposedly useful in optimising ones sexual prowess… ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/55 "2003-01-11T13:19:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*You people don’t have dill pickle chips?!? And you call yourselves a civilized nation! You do have ketchup chips, right? > > ( **TVeblen** , dill pickle chip dip is a grocery store staple here in Canada - in fact, I think I’m going to go buy some tomorrow. :D) \*\* I had those in NY- a company called Herr’s chips makes them both- dill and ketchup. Yummy! Also Bay Seasoning flavored. Mmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![bristlesage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@bristlesage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bristlesage)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/56 "2003-01-11T16:09:24Z")
**Washte** , if you’re serious, I am. No one should have to live without pickles in the proper American fashion! Email me if you want me to send them, free of charge. I feel I really must, especially as I eat them _exactly_ as you described. And we have dill pickle potato chips, **featherlou** , just not the Lay’s ones, at least not out west. But who said anything about a civilized nation? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/57 "2003-01-11T20:02:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Washte \* > \*\*\ > Does anyone else do this with their huge pickles? Keep in mind I’m a tad weird anyway… I like to eat the top off the pickle, then give it nice little squeezes, popping the seeds out and eating those first. Once the seeds are out, eat the rest of the pickle. > \ \*\* {channelling Joey from Friends}Hee hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/58 "2003-01-11T20:32:11Z")
::OUCH:: You didn’t have to \ me twice!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Macro\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Macro\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macro_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/59 "2003-01-11T21:20:57Z")
True story: When I was three, I had a pet cucumber. My mom grew it in her garden. The thing must’ve been 18" long. I used to even drag this thing to school. Cut to the chase: my mom makes me leave it home from school one day. I come home looking for Kyookie, and she made him into pickles. I loved that cucumber… he was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679/60 "2003-01-11T21:38:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\* > > ( **TVeblen** , dill pickle chip dip is a grocery store staple here in Canada - in fact, I think I’m going to go buy some tomorrow. :D) \*\* ::whimpers pitifully:: Oh, it’s okay, **featherlou** , don’t worry about me, really. Just because I’ve been deprived of this stuff for years. 'S fine. Really. No prob. [sub](muffled screaming)[/sub] While you’re nibbling daintily at _the food of the gods_, that creamy goodness with emerald flecks passing through your lips, don’t think another thing about it. If a mental image crops up of big, pitiful, starving puppy eyes staring at you, it’ll be pure coincidence. 😛 Veb [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unhand-my-pickle/147679.md?page=4)