What is up with the pickle-ification of foods this year? Is it just me or have pickles become the new sriracha, chipotle, kiwi-strawberry, etc.: that is, the flavor trend du jour, almost inexplicably. Do we have a surplus of cucumbers and dill or something?

Pickles are good, simple as.

No argument there! It’s just baffling to me where it came from and why *now*. I’m specifically thinking about Popeye’s and Sonic both doing pickle menu LTOs

Not to mention, I just learned about this viral food the other day (which ngl sounds awesome and I want to try it; there are even kits for those who don’t want to put in the effort):

The Popeyes pickle menu is a monumental achievement

They should make the pickle lemonade a permanent addition, it was so good

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

You’ll receive the Order of Lenin for this, Captain.

We have to go back

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Another FYFI (for your future information)

As a dill pickle enjoyer, please report back.

That's a negatory, Ghost Rider.

Hell yeah brother (I’m on a restricted diet rn but absolutely the kind of thing I would try otherwise)

Would.

You will be reporting back, yes?

Of course.

Oh hell yeah. I need to find this

“Limited edition” yeah I fucking bet it is

I love Cup Noodles and pickles…but I am deeply skeptical this could be anything other than revolting.

Update: not an improvement over chicken or shrimp, but the flavor was not revolting.

What are the limits on the edition?

The very outer bounds of a pickle lover’s imagination? 🤷🏼‍♀️

My kids say no way! And he likes dill pickles and cup o noodles!

Sorry but this means you’re a bad parent, hate to see it.

Too many trips to the farmers market, I’ve raised snobs!

This made me laugh

Fascinated, horrified, awaiting your report 😄

you know I think I actually would have found it quite easy not to cop

also report back

See? See? You want the hidden knowledge of what the cup contains. You would absolutely cop.

I 100% would

this could go either way but i hope it’s good

I'll allow it (saw Dill pickle popcorn recently, not allowing that)

And yet you will allow sour cream and onion, and yet you will accede to garlic parmesan, and yet you find comity with salt and vinegar. J'accuse monsieur!

Sir, Sir! Actually popcorn and chips flavors ought to be separate and not one of the same

Ah ha! Charade that your position is! Both are carbs cooked in oil, both are drenched in liquid fats further, both are seen as fine on their own yet enhanced with delectable salty flavorings! Your opposition is riddled with falsities sir!

One is the humble potato, sliced, thinly delicately, taking in flavors along its oil kissed surface. The other is the corn, humble sure, but sturdy and violently popped as you might say a surface of crevasses and mountains. Very different things, good sire, you simply cannot make them equal

spoken like some poor bastard who has never experienced the joy of sweet hot popcorn

I do not want a caramel potato chip, for instance!

Yes, YES

Someone posted dill pickle cotton candy into my feed tonight, I think popcorn is probably fine in comparison

you’ll allow ramen but draw the line at popcorn? what?

Pickle soup > pickle snack? However, we all acknowledge Dill Pickle Lays superiority in this house.

Lmao yes what is going on here

Look, it makes sense to me

Not entering Valhalla (where all you drink is the Popeye’s dill pickle lemonade)

the what

Oh yeah buddy it was a thing.

I feel like the reaction to pickle juice is a nice general tell of who has had to work a job which involved hard labor outdoors in the summer/played a serious summer sport and who hasn't.

Absolute miracle drug for keeping cramps away when you're sweating buckets.

yes it's magic stuff.

Trader Joe’s makes pickle potato chips and they are incredibly good (when you can find them). They also pair nicely with champagne.

This is the best seasonal popcorn on the planet and I will not be taking any questions.

No, NO

@sondra.bsky.social

Need to pair the soup with a nice sandwich/wrap: bsky.app/profile/brig...

this feels like error

Hubris maybe.

"Your food scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Now we know who is normal and who isn't.

"Other Natural Flavours" youtu.be/Dy6uLfermPU?...

I hope a review is coming.

I buy them in bulk.

this will cure your dill fever. worst thing to go into my mouth in the last 12 months.

That does look quite awful fair

incredibly jealous of your imminent taste experience