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Pickles and Peanut Butter Archives
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This week’s topic
is :
What
exactly is a pickle? Where did they come from, and how do you make them? Here are
a few facts from www.ilovepickles.org
, a site that can answer those questions and more. Know any good pickle jokes? Here’s a convincing argument that pickles
can kill you from the department of mathematics at John Handley high School Check out these Dancing
Pickles (If they don’t dance right away, click on each of the pickles) Check out the Pickles comic
strip by Brian Crane Everybody loves the whole Pickles clan in Rugrats Where do you get them and how to make them. Other interesting Pickle Points According to
German tradition, the pickle brings good luck. After all the other ornaments
were hung on the tree, the pickle ornament was hidden somewhere within the
branches. On Christmas morning the first child to find the gherkin was
rewarded with an additional small present left by St. Nicholas. The pickle
tradition encourages youngsters to enjoy the many ornaments on the tree before
checking to see what St. Nick has brought them.
PICKLES
Our next topic
will be Peanut Butter. If you have any ideas or material you would like to
see included, please send it to
mymom@picklesandpeanutbutter.net.
• Pickling is one of the
oldest forms of food preservation, discovered at the dawn of civilization,
thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia.
• International Pickle Week is one of the country's longest running
food promotions --it's been observed for more than 50 years. IPW actually
runs for 10 days during the last two weeks of May.
• The pickle got its name in the 1300s when English speaking people
mispronounced William Beukelz' name - he was a Dutch fisherman known for pickling
fish.
• Good pickles have an audible crunch at 10 paces. This can be measured
at "crunch-off" using the "scientific" device known as
the Audible Crunch Meter. Pickles that can be heard at only one pace are known
as denture dills.
• According to the U.S. Supreme Court, pickles are technically a "fruit"
of the vine (like tomatoes), but they are generally known as a vegetable.
Q: Why don't blondes eat pickles?
A: Because they can't get their head in the jar.
Pick
your own