Just yesterday, I saw the suggestion of pickle juice popsicles ...and sent it to my daughter ...who is going to make them for my grandson. Pickle juice is the BEST!

My neighbors used to fight over who would get to drink the pickle juice when all the pickles were gone. Finally their mom created a chart to document whose turn it was!

Why are pickles so often associated with pregnancy? I didn't crave a pickle once when I was pregnant, only nachos and frozen fruit. It is horribly prejudicial to think that all women crave pickles when they are pregnant. Not exactly a crime, I know, but horribly annoying for us pickle lovers who don't choose to be labeled a baby factory when the urge for a briny cuke arrives. On a side note, I do enjoy a good pickle but have never once comtemplated drinking the juice. That's a bit over the top for me.

A friend of mine was a 'smell craver' during her pregnancies. She had horrible urges to inhale gas fumes for one pregnancy and play-doh for the other. She's on baby #3 and I can't wait to hear what odd scent nags at her this time.

I also love pickles, and their juice. Thankfully, I come from a family of pickle-juice drinkers - my mother, her sisters, and my grandmother.
The only downside to that is that I thought it was normal to sip pickle juice every so often until I came to college.

What pickle juice I don't drink harbors hard-cooked eggs for later snackies. Learned that one from my Dad. Mmmm.

Lol...I too take the occasional swig and MyLuc cringes and moans and shudders, to him the exact description of your hubby is what he does. It's hard to understand but then again he does Mayo and I do Miracle Whip.

I used to sneak drinks of pickle juice when I was a kid. Mom kept the jar after the pickles were gone, because she used the juice in her potato, macaroni and egg salad dressings, so I could usually sneak a swig easily from the jar.

I am pregnant now, and what I crave is not pickles, but fermented, brined foods like saurkraut and kimchee.

Did you know they make a pickle juice drink now?

http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/picklejuice/

nothing says hangover and cureforhangover like the pickle juice swigging. hail the pickle. hail it.

The spouse gets the pickle juice; I get the olive juice. mmmmmmmmmmm

My grandpa used to own a candy/sno cone store and he made me pickle juice sno cones everyday after school. To this day, I eat them in the summer because they bring back such good memories. And they taste amazing!

I have never had pickle juice however, it might go well with some chilled vodka. I like to put cut cucumbers in pickle juice.

Yes! I also take swigs of sauerkraut juice.

You all are freaks!

One of my mother's favorite summertime treats was an ice cold dill pickle. I can close my eyes and envision her sitting in the chaise lounge in the backyard drinking iced tea and nibbling on a dill pickle wrapped in a paper towel while I run through the sprinklers on a hot summer day.

Not the same memories as the pickle juice sno cone but pleasurable nonetheless.

But you're still freaks!

Here's a shirt for your husband

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Isn't pickle juice, um, vinegar? I'm so confused. Yes, I'm in the "You all are freaks! " column but I love this blog.

Y'all probably don't remember the cartoon strip "Lil Abner", but it used to feature something called kickapoo joy juice. That's what I used to call pickle juice; as a child, I'd haul around a small Mason jar of the decanted ambrosia, thinking I was hot stuff.

Wow, I thought I was the only one who was a closet pickle juice drinker--well--swigger. Is true EVERYONE that knows thinks I am freak, and yes it indeed does help a hangover. yummmmmy
Think I will go have a quick swig right now! I no longer feel alone!

It's probably full of some sort of mineral or vitamin. Other than sodium that is.
I've always adored pickle juice. My boyfriend thinks I'm crazy, but he keeps a jar of it in his fridge for me (it really must be love).
My mum craved watermelon and lemon gelato when she was pregnant.

Hey FW! You were spotlighted by Google today... congratulations!!

wifey uses the pickle juice plus mayo to make cole slaw..to taste.. it's awesome

For a few moments I thought I found my wife's secret blog... you write like she talks

I read you all the time, but imagine my surprise when you were spotlighted on my google homepage: http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001963food_blog_spotlight_diary_of_the_food_whore.php

i have ALWAYS loved pickle juice, straight up!!!! when i was a little kid, my grandma would to save the jar when they would finish the pickles so i could enjoy all the juice. i had a ritual where i would pour only a little at a time into the lid and sip it from there...until the entire jar was gone.

the entire jar of juice.

aaaaaaaahhhh, the memories.

Ah! Outed. I did drink pickle juice with both kids. And both babies looooove pickles.

I also like to put cauliflower florets into the pickle jar after the pickles are gone.

YUM!!

Congrats on the Google highlight. Well deserved.

My husband refuses to kiss me if I have been near a pickle jar of any sort, so I know the look on your husband's face from my own home...

As a kid, I used to take swigs of the vinaigrette my mum left in the fridge. YUM! Maybe there is a Madeleine in the making somewhere in that memory...

I brew beer at home. One of my first beers had cucumbers and dill. Yum. Pickle beer.

I like drinking vinagar. I dont' like dill pickels so much as I like those big fat dark green ones you get at Disneyland. YUMMY

They are just less evolved. Drinking pickle juice is likened to drinking fine wine. *snicker* My boyfriend cringes at the mere thought of a pickle and is utterly disgusted by my love of drinking pickle juice...straight from the jar.

i've got the swigging vinaigrette thing bad. trough trial and error nixing ingredients, i've perfected my greek salad recipe: crumble a little feta in sraight up vinaigrette and dig in with a spoon!

freakish. yes. delicious. supremely. greek 'salad' for dinner, methinks...

Hey, I love pickles. I love pickle juice. In bloody marys, on it's own, whatever. My favorite sandwich (or snack!) is peanut butter and jelly... with pickle slices ON TOP. On bread, on crackers, whatever. It just tastes GOOD.

Once when I was a kid, I puked while in the care of a babysitter from... drinking too much pickle juice.

I confess. I have taken the occasional swig from the pickle jar.

there's a place at the end of our street called la paletera, and it is there where you can procure dill pickle sno-cones.

when i was pregnant, i craved jalapenos. i would have put them on cereal and ice cream if i could.

That's a great story. I love pickles (but fortunately so does my husband!). However, the reality of pregnancy (since I'm pg right now) is that the idea of drinking pickle juice is really nauseating. So, that sterotype can be put to rest. Pickles and pregnancy do not actually mix. Oh, but don't think I'm judging you...I like pickles and ice cream NORMALLY. So drink away, my friend. Drink away.

I loved pickle juice as a kid, but really hadn't kicked any back in a long time (too long).

This post made me remember my past love and -- just last night -- I took a swig from the jar.

AHHH, pure joy!

Thanks for reminding me of one of the simple pleasures . . .

My friend Brian is threatening to open a restaurant in Manhattan. Brian's Brine Bar, shots of pickle juice, olive oil paired with cheese and wine. You guys should partner up!