Pickles Are Awesome

Posted by gspeed on Dec 3, 2008 in Food | 3 comments

Turn that frown upside-down with a Picksickle!

Pickles are an amazing food. You can pickle pretty much anything: turnips, eggplant, asparagus, artichokes, your stepmother…But it’s hard to beat the tart crunch of the good ol’ fashioned pickled cucumber.

Pickles even save lives: Columbus’s ships were stocked full of these gerkins so the crew wouldn’t die of scurvy.

Do you know what that means??!! America may not have been discovered were it not for the humble pickle! Screw Columbus Day! Where is Pickle Day??!!!

Pickling things also improves their nutritional value: It’s been proven that Kimchi-pickled cabbage-has twice as many B vitamins and twice as much niacin (it sounds like a poison, but its good stuff) as the boring vegetable found in the produce isles.

And if your kid wants some ice cream on a hot day, why not suggest a nice cold Pickle Pop (photo left) Instead? I’m sure they will love you even more … or kick you in the shin. Either way, it sounds like family bonding time.

If you’re not worried about scurvy, you can celebrate with a few drinks. Had too many? Guess what!? Pickles cure hangovers too! Holy crap!! Pickle usages are endless!

Pickling has gone on for thousands of years to ensure that food was always available. Historians believe that the first pickle came to be about 3000 years ago. I bet some genius decided to put cucumbers in saltwater and let them sit out in the blazing sun for a few hours as part of an elaborate hazing ritual.   After that, the world became a better place.

Screw fresh vegetables…bring on the pickling!

Pickles are so fantabulous that they even have plastic yodeling versions for sale HERE , just to remind you how much better your life is with a yodeling pickle in hand.