On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:43:02 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig
> wrote:

>On Sep 15, 6:04*pm, "George Leppla" > wrote:
>> OK... I hijacked another thread to start this....
>>
>> "Mark Thorson" > wrote
>>
>> > Isn't it traditionally done with a pickle?
>> > I recall a spate of postings and web sites
>> > about doing this with pickles many years ago.
>>
>> Speaking of pickles......
>>
>> When I moved South a few years ago, the first time I went to a movie theater
>> I saw a big jar of dill pickles at the refreshment counter. *$2.00 each. *I
>> asked the girl who worked there and she told me that they sold at least one
>> jar every night.
>>
>> What??? *Who on God's green earth would think that a pickle is a good snack
>> at a movie?
>>
>> Apparently Texans do... and people in Louisiana and Mississippi. *Does
>> anyone besides me think this is strange?
>>
>> George L
>
>ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I was a kid (50s - 60s) we could get big fat
>dill pickles about 4" to 6". They were not, as I remember cheap cost
>somewhere around a buck. That pickle could last an hour or more!
>Lynn in Fargo

Where was that... in NYC in the '50s a giant pickle fished from a huge
wooden barrel cost a nickle.