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Hawkmoon:

--- Quote from: charby on November 07, 2018, 08:28:02 AM ---A gas station that sells hotdogs, steal a couple packets of sweet relish.

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That was my Plan B ... and it may well become Plan A, because it doesn't take much relish to make a batch of Special Sauce, and I have no other use for a jar of relish taking up space in the refrigerator.

brimic:
I've had pickles = cucumbers ingrained in my psyche since i was a toddled.
Grandmother used to make a huge batch of dill pickles every year- she washed the cucumbers in an old wringer-washing machine.
The octanegerian couple that lived two houses down from me as a kid made some sort of fermented crock pickles in their garage. I would go over there, the old man would lift a plate off a crock and dig one out of the green slime for me. They were absolutely delicious.

K Frame:

--- Quote from: Hawkmoon on November 07, 2018, 05:00:54 PM ---Well, err, umm ...

Yes, somewhere in my dinosaur brain I did know that pickles are pickled cucumbers -- but I didn't put that into the equation when reading the label on the pickle jars.

:hangs head in shame:

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Sort of like when Lisa Simpson tells Homer that pork chops, ham and bacon all come from the same animal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZDZyRaGa8

French G.:
Random pickle thoughts, my dad worked in a pickle plant before I was born, fixing equipment and designing new machines for of all things a New York Jewish pickle plant owner. Stereotype much? So some fifty years later he still won't eat pickle relish since at least in that plant the relish came from whatever jammed in machines or got shovelled up off the floor.

I have built some pickle loading machines, actually still cucumbers then, lines the cukes up and lays them in a pocketed conveyor belt. No idea how the plant sizes the cukes, but they have very stringent size requirements, they no crap sent us test cucumbers to run the thing.

K Frame:
Not surprised that they have stringent requirements. My guess is that their entire pickling process is built around how long it takes to pickle a cuke of X dimensions. Larger or smaller cukes would throw that off.

Also, you need to be able to get the cukes in the bottle in certain quantities. Over/under sized pickles would throw that off, as well.

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