"George Leppla" > wrote in message
...
> 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

Nah. Here in PA they sell a pickle-on-a-stick at my favorite amusement
park, Knoebel's. I saw lots of people walking around with them, young, old,
you name it.