brooklyn1 wrote:
> 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.

Yup! I frequently bought one for a nickel on the way home from
school.

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Jean B.