Comments on: If my liver is pickled, does that mean it used to be a cucumber? http://www.donloree.com/2009/08/05/if-my-liver-is-pickled-does-that-mean-it-used-to-be-a-cucumber/ Real Woman, Real Funny Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eric Brooks http://www.donloree.com/2009/08/05/if-my-liver-is-pickled-does-that-mean-it-used-to-be-a-cucumber/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Eric Brooks Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:19:18 +0000 http://www.donloree.com/?p=251#comment-128 Ahh, until you've made sweet pickles, you haven't smelled anything! Three or four days of sliced up cucumbers fermenting in a bowl of sweetened, spiced vinegar, sitting open on your kitchen cupboard, bubbling away! Nasty! The smell was so noxious that we (Beth & I) couldn't bring ourselves to eat the resulting pickles afterwards. Their taste-- which was pretty good -- brought back far too many memories... As for dills, be they cucumbers, pickled carrots, or "half-sours" (cukes that have only been in the brine for a day or two), I love the smell of them being made. To each his own, I guess. Ahh, until you’ve made sweet pickles, you haven’t smelled anything! Three or four days of sliced up cucumbers fermenting in a bowl of sweetened, spiced vinegar, sitting open on your kitchen cupboard, bubbling away! Nasty!

The smell was so noxious that we (Beth & I) couldn’t bring ourselves to eat the resulting pickles afterwards. Their taste– which was pretty good — brought back far too many memories…

As for dills, be they cucumbers, pickled carrots, or “half-sours” (cukes that have only been in the brine for a day or two), I love the smell of them being made. To each his own, I guess.

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