A Sweet So Sour: Kool-Aid Dills

[Will E Worm]

A Sweet So Sour: Kool-Aid Dills

A GALLON jar of pickles sits near the register at Lee’s Washerette and Food Market, a mustard-colored cinder-block bunker on the western fringe of this Mississippi Delta town.

Those pickles were once mere dills. They were once green. Their exteriors remain pebbly, a reminder that long ago they began their lives on a farm, on the ground, as cucumbers.

But they now have an arresting color that combines green and garnet, and a bracing sour-sweet taste that they owe to a long marinade in cherry or tropical fruit or strawberry Kool-Aid.

Kool-Aid pickles violate tradition, maybe even propriety. Depending on your palate and perspective, they are either the worst thing to happen to pickles since plastic brining barrels or a brave new taste sensation to be celebrated.

The pickles have been spotted as far afield as Dallas and St. Louis, but their cult is thickest in the Delta region, among the black majority population. In the Delta, where they fetch between 50 cents and a dollar, Kool-Aid pickles have earned valued space next to such beloved snacks as pickled eggs and pigs’ feet at community fairs, convenience stores and filling stations. And as their appeal has widened, some people have seen a good business opportunity. Even the lawyers have gotten involved.

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[STDiva]

I'm going to try this right now. I'll get back to you in a week or so.

 

[Mayhem]

I'm going to try this right now. I'll get back to you in a week or so.

You just got me to subscribe to my first thread....ever. I'll await your report.

 

[squallumz]

oh yeah, almost forgot about these. they have beem big in the south for years.

fucking disgusting if you ask me, but all the same..

 

[Hondarobot]

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I'm not sure where this thread is going. I'm assuming you think this is evidence that the current US administration is mind controlling African Americans via pickles.

Just a guess. . . I honestly have no idea

 

[Hondarobot]

Fuck, I ate a god damn pickle!

 

[Will E Worm]

I'm going to try this right now. I'll get back to you in a week or so.

Pictures.

I'm not sure where this thread is going. I'm assuming you think this is evidence that the current US administration is mind controlling African Americans via pickles.

Just a guess. . . I honestly have no idea

Troll much?

 

[Hondarobot]

Pictures.



Troll much?

LOL, you're calling me a troll? No, I'm actually a real guy

 

[Ace Bandage]

I'm assuming you think this is evidence that the current US administration is mind controlling African Americans via pickles.

Only if they were making it watermelon flavored...

 

[squallumz]

i believe alton brown discovered these on feasting on asphalt a few years ago.

he got so fucking fat on the trip. it was quite amusing.

 

[Will E Worm]

LOL, you're calling me a troll? No, I'm actually a real guy

Only if they were making it watermelon flavored...

Watermelon flavored...

 

[Mayhem]

Only if they were making it watermelon flavored...

Oh no yoo di'int! :nono:

 

[PirateKing]

Only if they were making it watermelon flavored...

The word you're looking for is "fried". Fried pickles sound pretty good right now actually.

 

[Mr. Numb3rs]

this thread has a subtly and yet delightfully racist undertone...

 

[LukeEl]

Um how about no, just so my taste buds don't take slivers of fingernails and stab my tounge with them.

 

[Will E Worm]

Only if they were making it watermelon flavored...

 

[gunslingingbird]

ukey:

 

[Will E Worm]

ukey:

Excuse me... Have you even tried one?

 

[squallumz]

Excuse me... Have you even tried one?

just mine.