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Fail Boat
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I don't get it. I go to the grocery store and it's like $1 per cucumber in the produce section. I go to the pickle section and can get a jar of about 15 of them for $3 - or Sams Club and get a jar of 25 for a similar price.

So let me get this straight, they can pickle the cucumber enhancing it's deliciouness and put it in a jar for me for safe keeping for a long time and the price drops drastically?

Farmers and produce pros, please explain.

7/28/2009 10:45:46 PM

Slave Famous
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If you're looking for something cheaper to sodomize yourself with, might I suggest a carrot

7/28/2009 10:47:00 PM

NeuseRvrRat
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canned is always cheaper than fresh

7/28/2009 10:47:21 PM

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Killer explanation!

7/28/2009 10:48:44 PM

arcgreek
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carrot would be most appropriate I think. Get one w/ a good point, and really put some force behind it.

7/28/2009 10:49:38 PM

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I'm going to go with:

You can do anything you want with a cucumber, including pickle it
but once you have a pickle....that's about it

7/28/2009 10:49:48 PM

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if a grocery store purchases ten pickled cucumbers, they will sell them all. if they buy ten cucumbers they have a pretty decent chance of having to throw many of them away. not to mention it costs more to ship cucumbers than pickles.

7/28/2009 10:50:16 PM

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i'm going with

the cucumbers that become pickles weren't fit to be sold as just cucumbers.

it's like the sausage of the vegetable world.

7/28/2009 10:51:08 PM

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plus, fresh cucumbers taste a hell lot better than pickled cucumbers.

7/28/2009 10:51:42 PM

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a buck a cucumber?

I got three HUGE ones for 2 bucks the other day and they were the size of maybe 5 jarred pickles.

so there ya go.

you're getting ripped off.

7/28/2009 10:54:59 PM

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Quote :
"not to mention it costs more to ship cucumbers than pickles."


well, pickle-cucumbers have to be shipped as cucumber-cumbers at some point, from the farm to the pickle-maker. then the final pickles have to be shipped again. Overall, this is probably more expensive than taking a cucumber straight from a farmer to a vegetable distributer

7/28/2009 10:59:16 PM

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Quote :
"a buck a cucumber?

I got three HUGE ones for 2 bucks the other day and they were the size of maybe 5 jarred pickles.

so there ya go.

you're getting ripped off."


It certainly varies and depends on the quality, but around $1 per 12" cucumber has been about average in my experience.

And I'm not talking about a small pickle jar here, I'm talking about the big ones you can get at Sams for the same price as the small jar at a grocery store.

7/28/2009 11:02:01 PM

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wait wait wait

are we talking like at the hood lion or at trader joes?

7/28/2009 11:04:28 PM

NeuseRvrRat
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let's take a field trip down to Mount Olive, NC

7/28/2009 11:04:59 PM

sarijoul
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Quote :
"well, pickle-cucumbers have to be shipped as cucumber-cumbers at some point, from the farm to the pickle-maker. then the final pickles have to be shipped again. Overall, this is probably more expensive than taking a cucumber straight from a farmer to a vegetable distributer"


i have a hunch pickle makers stick pretty close to cucumber farms.

7/28/2009 11:07:06 PM

bcsawyer
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pickles are imported in barrels from all over the world. it's cheaper to handle them than fresh cucumbers.

7/28/2009 11:13:27 PM

Dentaldamn
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also you can make pickles with shitty cucumbers which is not the case with actual fresh cucumbers.

7/28/2009 11:16:12 PM

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i blame recession and obama

7/28/2009 11:18:09 PM

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