Maybe I’m Fickle, But I Yawn at Pickle Sickle

Posted by Baylen on Mar. 13, 2008

Yesterday was frozen-pickle critical-mass day, apparently, as both the Washington Post and NY Times featured the Pickle Sickle, the “bizarre tasting pickle craze from Texas you cant (sic-kle) get enough of!”.

I like pickled cucumbers (and onions and hot peppers) as much as the next person, and have downed my share of pickle juice, especially after a run (though never Pickle Juice Sport), but I fail to see what makes freezing pickle juice anything special. Beyond the fact kids might like it because they’ll find it kooky — in that blue ketchup sort of way — I’m not sure what the big deal is.

Though if the d-bag pickle haters at the Center for Science in the Public Interest ever come out against pickle juice or frozen pickles, you can be sure I’ll be amongst those lobbing fried pickles their way. And bacon-wrapped pickles, too. Plenty of those.

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  • Kayt
    But it takes me back to my childhood in Madison Wisconsin. At some point when I was young, our boarder, Marsha, brought home something called pickle-sickles. I am unsure where they came from. I have a vague idea that they were a product/customer of where ever Marsha worked and whatever job Marsha had was somehow involved advertising and promotions. Frankly, I don't know what our boarder and her dog ( Ralph Waldo) really did outside of entertaining me at a youngage..and
    probably smoking pot. Well, Ralph didn't smoke, he ate rocks. I have a pretty good idea of the things Ralph did.

    I tried a pickle sickle.

    I then I typed up a poem about them which summed up my feelings on picklesickles. That poem remained on our fridge for many years. I am pretty sure I am getting the words right here, but my misspellings are only guessed at.

    "Pickle sicles are no gud. you suk on them. thay taste lik pickle juice."
  • Pete
    Ahh don't be a hater, have you ever tried pickle juice? I used to drink it straight out of the jar know this company is using the whole essence of the pickle and making popsickles. I wont be able to get them soon enough. YUMMY!!! why didn't I think of this...? this well be great to cool me and my family down this summer.
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