Kool-Aid pickles???
I'm having a *very* hard time getting my mind around this one! Check out this article from today's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/din...
Anyone ever tasted these? Made them? Thoughts???
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I'm having a *very* hard time getting my mind around this one! Check out this article from today's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/din...
Anyone ever tasted these? Made them? Thoughts???
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I read that article too and was very facinated/grossed out by it. I live in the deep south (Alabama and North Carolina) and have NEVER heard of them in my life. Could be something fairly new the *kids* started.
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I saw this over on reddit.com yesterday, ewww. Seems they've found another way of pushing sugar into something cheap so they can sell it to kids.
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Yeah, the part that freaked me a little was when they said to add sugar to the Kool-Aid.
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A pound of sugar, no less...
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They are likely referring to the unsweetened Kool-Aid packets (which sell for about 25 cents each) not the kind that has the sugar already in it. Personally - I can't wait to try these at home...
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Well, that's a bit of a relief.
Does that mean you could make a sour Kool-Aid pickle by omitting the sugar?
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You'd get the citric acid and color, but I think a lot of the appeal is the sweetness.
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As kids we would buy a pickle and a pack of kool-aid from the corner store and dip it in as we ate it. The thought grosses me out now but it was great at the time.
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I've never heard of these -- but my husband is a Middle School/High School teacher and the "kids" like to buy a prepackaged pickle and throw a peppermint in the juice and then eat that and drink the juice. It's very popular. Can't say anything about the taste b/c I've never tasted it.
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