I’ve always loved pickles ever since I was a little kid, so like 72 years ago. My dad gives me a jar just about every Christmas; yes, he gave me the infamous pickle ornament too.
My mom’s made baked pickle chips for me. To the surprise of absolutely no one, fried pickles are better.
I put pickles on all my salads, homemade or at restaurants. Doesn’t matter where I am, long hair don’t care.
When we went to Bruce’s Candy Kitchen in Seaside, my mom bought me a bag of candy pickles. They didn’t really taste like pickles but I still ate them all like a boss.
When I’m feeling superbly awesome, I eat pickles right after a run because salty sounds good. And yes, of course I’ve drunk pickle juice. Why would you even ask me that!?
I know my husband loves me, not because he puts up some seriously legit psycho crap of mine, but because when we go out to eat, he orders an extra cup of pickles for me without asking. And when he doesn’t, I pull said psycho card. “You don’t love me, do you. I knew it!”
When I ran my then-PR at Carlsbad, I celebrated by going home, popping a bottle of bub and eating a whole jar of pickles. NBD. and that’s happened on more occasions than one.
Whole jars of pickles aren’t just for PRs.
So imagine my surprise when I found out this afternoon that I’m not the most amazing pickle lover in the world.
I was reading Rachel Ray’s EveryDay magazine that my neighbor gave me and saw this:
Katy Tackett is such a pickle lover that she carries around a jar in her purses and “nearly ever shelf (of her fridge) is reserved for pickle jars.”
“Tackett’s wardrobe is predominantly green” and when she can’t have a pickle she uses pickle-flavored lip balm.
I just got served.
Any food/candy/drink/dessert that you love fresh to death?
I’m pretty obsessive over cinnamon bears too.
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Oh you and your pickles! Great post…who knew so many pickle products were out there…almost as many as bacon. ALMOST!!!
I only like sweet pickles though; yeah, most people hate them. Sweet, gherkins, bread & butter. Love ‘em to death!
Mine is not food.but it could be considered a drink i guess. my addiction is ice. awful i know. I like all kinds of ice. I go to different restaurants just for their particular shape, size of ice. i love the little ice pebbles from Zaxbys but i also love the flat disc like ice cubes from Chic-fil-A. I am probably destroying the enamel on my teeth. but ice is my thang. I annoy the crap outtah everyone around me with my ice gnashing.
Hope you had a wonderful wednesday, SR!! love the pic! do you remember where you got the vest you are wearing with the black top? love it!
I do this too. The airier the ice is, the better. I get the cravings really bad when my iron level is low. Have you been tested?
I’m a hard-core pickle lover, too. Dill only. Pickle lady has me beat, too. I kinda want some pickle-flavored lip balm now.
I called BS when I read about that lip balm.
http://www.amazon.com/Pickle-Flavored-Scented-Novelty-Present/dp/B003BW67TW
IT’S REAL.
You should freeze pickle juice in ice trays then lick it like a popsickle – a “PickleSickle”….. It’s a southern thang.
that is brilliant. i just did coffee ice cubes and thought i should win a nobel prize for it.
Yup! I love pickles, too. I even use the leftover juice to make salad dressing. YUM!
Our local creamery (I thought they were called dairies) makes pickle ice cream…I tried it…YUM! Its like eating a pickle! They use pickle juice to flavor it and its outstanding!
Wow and I thought my addiction pickle potato chips were bad!!
Do you have Target nearby? On the peg candy section, we have Cinnamon Bears, for 1.00 a pack. They are sooo good.
oh heck yeah. my favorite are the little bags at chevron gas stations. they always taste the best to me.
They now have pickled flavored vodka.
i need to try that!
I love pickles too – especially the sandwich slices. I also eat a ton of blueberries and candy. I have a candy addiction. My kids often wonder what the heck happened to all their Halloween candy…
I am also super pickle obsessed. All your pickle posts make me happy. After a two plus hour commute home from work, all this talk about pickles just cheered me up!
Omg when you get pregnant…gurrrrlll
I LOVE fried pickles with ranch…all day err day
Love the Dennis green quote.
Fennel Seeds. I know I can’t be alone.
You are the reason I even tried pickles on my salad. Now the dude at my favorite salad place will tell other people making my salad, “she wants more than that.” He’s a good man.
Do you do dill and sweet pickles? I’m an equal opportunity pickle lover. < —- sounds dirty
im so overjoyed about my blogging legacy.
i used to not like bread and butter but times have changed. ive eaten a whole jar of them in one sitting too. too bad theyre full of sugar.
I get the ones sweetened with Splenda. No calories, still delicious. But then you have the whole Splenda issue.
I’m just resigned to the fact that I’m going to die and it’s probably going to be Splenda related.
mmmm pickles are AWESOME prett much another food group. I too drink the pickle juice;) I feel like I’m in confessional!
I’m a fellow pickle lover. Now I dont know where I learned this sandwich from but……its da-bomb! >> Peanut Butter and Pickle sandwich (dill pickle) on white bread
yummm for me but I know that most get grossed out.
I love dill pickle and peanut butter sandwiches!! Glad I’m not the only one! I can eat peanut butter with everything!
I love me some peanut butter. I would eat a roach covered in peanut butter! Not really…but don’t they say bug pieces are mixed into the peanut butter in the factory? Eh…who cares…it’s amazing!
I love me some pickles too, but you still outrank me, cap’n.
I love me some Malt Vinegar. I put it on everything I possible can. Salad is a given, sea food, anything breaded is better once it has soaked up some malt vinegar. I drizzle tortilla and potato chips and almost any fresh veggies and fruit, and yes when the craving is bad I will sip it like wine…only a little though because it’s bad for your teeth.
I just found my new favorite pickle… spicy bread & butter pickles! The company that makes them is called Sonoma Brinery and they are featured in the September issue of Sunset Mag. I’m not typically a sweet or bread & butter pickle fan, but these are pretty awesome. Especially in salads
I eat pickles until I get canker sores! I was recently introduced to Wickles (spicy pickles) with a little cream cheese on a triscuit! to die for! we have them at Safeway, so good!
Too many but pickles ain’t on the list. Hmm…you just gave me an idea…maybe I could try fried pickles and not “die”. Seriously. Then again, I can’t stomach anything pickled or preserved. Not even fruits.
Never been a huge pickle fan, but I am DEFINITELY like that with peanut butter. Nom.
Wow! You really love pickles!
Can’t say there’s anything I love THAT much… except maybe eggs? I can have them in any form and I eat at least two per day. Plus, everything is better with a fried egg.
Pickles are awesome. So is peanut butter.
I LOVE pickles, but the small cocktail ones.
Another thing I love, chips!
I ate a full bag for supper once, it was something like 200% daily fat intake, and almost 2000 calories. So worth it anyways.
I love salty things more than candy
I love love love pickles, too! Many a day as a kid were spent sitting on the curb with my cousin, drinking leftover pickle juice (after we demolished the pickles) out of a Hidden Valley Ranch dressing shaker bottle. Oh the memories.
I can’t go to Disneyland without buying one of the giant chilled dill pickles. Even if it’s 11pm when we’re leaving, the pickle must be eaten!
I wonder if carrying a jar of pickles around would give you scoliosis. It sounds like a lot to lug around.
I am also completely addicted to pickles. Any and every variety. I am actually going to try making my own this weekend
I literally just lol’ed. She wears green?!? What a nut! Be glad you aren’t so infatuated that you limit your wardrobe to one color. Oh pickles.
http://coffeebeansandbobbypins.blogspot.com//
Pickles are pretty darn good on salads!! My obsessions is almond butter. I kinda dip everything……..like everything!
I <3 ice cream. I could eat an entire pint or more every day. Not nearly as good for you as pickles!
I’ve heard that if you eat a lot of pickles you have extreme diarrhea? Annnnyway, I could eat peaches galore. Yum for my tum!
I can’t believe there is actually someone out there who loves pickles more than you!
Mac and cheese is my jam… And mexican food (margaritas)
… Now if I could only figure out a way to eat it for every meal and not get really fat… And I drink (unsweet) iced tea like it’s going out of style!
my husband drinks so MUCH unsweetened iced tea. he goes to chickfila and buys the gallon of it. like, who does that?!
Man… once they had these pickles wrapped up in a pretzel bun. Um.. yeah… heaven!! Well my obsession/enemy is Swedish Fish. I mean come on – they are the best freakin swimming creatures around. I randomly make drive by’s to Walgreens quite often to get the bag – yep not the small box – the bag… and enjoy every last one of them without sharing ONE with my kids. Oh cry kids… whatevs! they are MINE!
Funny you would ask about food obsessions. Although I also love pickles and put them on my salads as well, I have big love of peaches. It’s a fatal attraction type love. Unfortunately I only get to indulge my peach fetish during the summers when peaches don’t suck. The bad thing about a peach fetish is that when you can’t control yourself and you each 6 in a day (which I am ashamed to say I have done on way more than one occassion) you get crazy bad diarrhea. I love peaches so much, that I can’t even stop eating them when I know it will give me the hot sloppys. That, ladies, is true love.
PEANUT BUTTER!!! I am pretty obsessed…too bad its full of FAT!
I also LOVE pickles. Whenever I go out to eat with people, all the pickles are mine! My daughter is a nut about them as well! Fried pickle spears (not the chips, blah!) are the best!!
Pickles are the ambrosia of the greek gods!! So delicious.
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My fav is twizzlers pull and peel, not the regular twizzlers, have to be the pull and peel. There is just no comparison between the two. Then peanut butter and oatmeal, mmmm… i am salivating just thinking about my favorite foods. downside to all my fav’s have to remember moderation! Mabye I should switch to apples
There really is no comparison between pull N peel and regular!
Regular = gross, PNP = heavenly.
I have an obsession with nut butters I love apples with almond butter and lately I have been craving almond butter banana sandwiches. My sister lovessss pickles! She is 11 and ever since she was like 5 she has been completely obsessed. She goes through so many jars! She is not a fan of fried pickles though.
Holy pickle obsession – I love it!!! I don’t like pickles in the natural form (good God that sounds filthy), BUT I love fried pickles and pickle potato chips (right, bc anything NOT healthy for you is delicious..).
My obsession – M&Ms. It’s horrifying how many I can eat. I should probably switch to something more healthy.. Or just run more
Haha “I just got served” hahaha too funny. I love pickles. Homemade pickles are the best!
pickles! I love every kind of pickle, it’s the only kind of snack I get at the movies too –except bread and butter! yuck.
and you’re not living until you have had a hot pickle in a pouch–
my dad used to get them for me for breakfast!
my best friend and i do fried pickles and mimosas as our post-race tradition! otherwise, i make a mean “baked” fried pickle. the trick is to use spears so they stay crispy when baked. cover the spears in egg whites, then dunk in a mixture of bread crumbs/panko bread crumbs/garlic powder/paprika then put on baking sheet. bake at 400 until browned…then broil for a minute or two to get that crisp. dip in yogurt ranch OR grape jelly…i know it sounds weird but it’s SOOO GOOOD!
thanks! ill be making them fosho.
we have a baby deep fat fryer (so healthy i know) and have made both chips and spears in it, sooo good.
For me, it’s all about the ice cream.
OMG. I’m absolutely IN LOVE (obsessed) with Claussen pickles. I have a jar at all times, and I stock up like I’m preparing for the apocalypse when they go on sale. Now, I’ll do you one further. I actually take an ice tray and fill it with sweet, sweet delicious pickle juice (the more garlicky and salty the better), an ld place Saran wrap over it. I stick a toothpick in each cube hole, and freeze. And I enjoy taste of heaven pickle Popsicles.
I am obsessed with pickles too. I went through 2 jars in the last week. I need to invest in one of those massive jars. But, I might just stare at this post all day because of all the pickles. (I am not a fan of sweet pickles, though).
I am also obsessed with apples and anything pumpkin flavored.
http://bobspicklepops.com/
Bahahhaa. Love this post. EVerything about it. Well, I guess you did get served….but then again, maybe ur husband could buy u some of that lipgloss?!
I do enjoy a pickle from time to time but just don’t have your level of commitment.
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I’m probably like everyone else in the Western Hemisphere when I say I love chocolate. Besides that, I’ve recently become attached to quiches. Thank you, France.
I’m pretty obsessed on cherries right now. I’m not a huge pickle fan but I’m pretty impressed with your devotion to them.
Hi SR, I am a relatively new reader of your blog (love your sense of humor and thanks for all the great posts!) so I don’t know if you’ve discussed in the past – but what about all the research how pickle juice is excellent muscle recovery? I have seen a few trail ultramarathons serve pickles at aid stations; and here is a link to a post by a world class ultra runner Kami Semick where she talks about pickle juice. Oh, and dried pineapple for me
http://kamisemick.blogspot.com/2010/09/pickle-juice-study-with-sample-size-of.html
I have an obsession with apples. I’ll eat them plain, put them in a salad, chop em up and bake them, cut them in slices and dip them in marshmallow fluff, etc. I probably eat 5 apples a day!
Do you tend to get alot of canca’s from too many pickles? I do! I love the bread & butter ones. My dad used to buy them all the time when we were kids and have them with burgers and beans. =)
Im obsessed with pickles, too!! I love just about anything pickled!
Have you ever had a pickle back? For some reason, pickle juice complements whiskey perfectly
I, too, am a lover of all things pickle. My roomie in college was also a pickle lover and we would blend pickle juice and ice and devour pickle slushies. Yum, yum, yum!
I also eat pickle flavored sunflower seeds by the bucketload. My poor sodium levels
This post is awesome. I love your pickle obsession. We (my 4 y/o son & I) are HUGE pickle fans. Dill all the way. I was so proud when he asked for a pickle with his waffle for breakfast yesterday. That’s my boy! I’m also a coffee lover and just found a recipe on pinterest for a homemade white chocolate mocha. OMG & I’ve been making it every morning…obsessed.
When my brother was a kid he used to order subs with extra pickles, and a even more extra pickles on the side. Every time.
Once at our local 4th of July parade, one of the sub-shop employees was walking around handing out coupons and actually recognized my mom. “Hey, you’re the pickle kid’s mom!” I guess there are worse things to be recognized for.
I love pickles but I hate opening the jars. I’m weak, what can I say?
Recently I’ve been eating an avocado a day! Can’t get enough of them….probably because I go through withdraw when I’m at school.
Pickles are ok every once in a while, like the little side pickle with a deli sandwich or something. You crazy.
No real food that I am over the top for and have to carry in my purse or dress like. Maybe something I can aspire to?
I love pickles too! I have an obsession with anything with coconut in it. But I will always be a lover of salt & vinegar chips- yum!
I’m the odd ball and can’t stand pickles. I’ll pick them out of sandwhiches and salads all day long. My favorite food topping is cheese. It’s so bad for me but I love eating cheese and crackers for a snack.
You should borrow Snooki’s costume for this halloween… or anytime
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-style/news/pic-snooki-becomes-pickle-princess-for-halloween-20103110
Have you seen Bob’s frozen pickles? I lived on these things when I was pregnant with one of my kiddos. Super yummy
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/03/bobs-frozen-pickles-are-unsupr.php
Totally copied the wrong link in my previous comment and can’t delete it. Please disregard the annoying link listed above
I love chocolate but that’s not unusual. I am totally addicted to Coke Zero though! I drink two-three a day and that is after I have cut back a lot.
you need to know that there is the most awesome popsicles shop on studio city called !”suck it sweets” and they have outrageous popsicles and…of course a dill picle pop. its kind of a big deal.
i did not know but want to go there right now. like this second.
i wish i had my own personal driver.
If you read the science of fitness book, The First 20 Minutes, the author states that research has shown that pickle juice helps keep muscle cramping after a long run at bay! You knew it! I highly recommend the book.
Hey Skinny Runner!
Thanks for the link to http://www.picklefreak.com. Yesterday I spent over $50 ordering pickles on the internet. Geez. Glad to have you amongst my fellow freaks! Katy
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