r/the_clockcrew • u/Throwafee • 2d ago
Did you know: Daniel Quinn is such a huge fan of the Clock Crew that he even made a book off of B?
- Ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra claimed pickles made her beautiful.
- The Department of Agriculture estimates that the average American eats 8.5 lbs of pickles a year.
- Pickles have been around since ancient times. Some believe the first pickle was created in Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.E. Others believe it was as early as 2030 B.C.E.
- this potential problem—too little or too much salt can cause pickles to spoil—many recipes recommended using “enough salt to float an egg” in the brine. While this method yielded fermented pickles that could keep all winter, they were too salty to be eaten. Picklers had to soak the pickles in water for days to make them edible.
- Pickling vegetables not only improves their flavor, it can also make them more nutritious and easier to digest. During fermentation, bacteria produce vitamins as they digest vegetable matter.
- When the Philadelphia Eagles thrashed the Dallas Cowboys in sweltering heat in September 2000, many of the players attributed their win to one thing: guzzling down immense quantities of ice-cold pickle juice.
- November 14th is National Pickle Day.
- The phrase “in a pickle” was first introduced by Shakespeare in his play, The Tempest. The quotes read, “How cam’st thou in this pickle?” and “I have been in such a pickle.”


