Not a mushy love story

My tolerance for mush is variable.  If the pickle is homemade and has a good flavor I will overlook some mushiness, partially because there will also be some inconsistency.  When the pickle is mass produced I do not like the mush!  Blah!  Today I ate Safeway generic dill pickle.  I had the sand which stacker because I have found that with a less quality brand of pickle, the stackers and the slices have a tendency to taste a little better.  Well, this was NOT true.  MUSH, pure mush.  They were so gross!  In addition I thought they would taste like a generic, whatever, type of pickle, but they did not!  They had a bitter aftertaste!  YUCK.  Also, usually pickles I don't like, my kids will eat...nope!!!!  They didn't like them either!  That is a bad pickle!  The best thing about this pickle is the whimsical looking generic label!

Like I said, I do buy sandwich stackers on a regular basis.  Two reasons: 1.  If the pickle has a good taste but bad texture it is a work around that scenario.  2.  It is easier to get more pickle flavor on  your sandwiches!  I think Vlasic came up with the sandwich stacker.  They were the first company to mass market them.  I guess it was in response to the whole stacking trend around the country.  Stacker, the diet drug, Stacker the video game, diet Stackers and my personal favorite stacker, the cup stacker.

When Claire was in elementary school they announced that in P.E. they sent out a note that they were doing cup stacking.  As a matter of fact they even had an after school class that was all about cup stacking.  I thought this was totally bizarre!  Cup Stacking, also known as speed stacking, didn't really seem like a PE appropriate activity to me!  Apparently it improves your hand eye coordination.  When I was in school PE was just about running ladders until you thought you were going to pass out.  Anyhow, here is a little history and information on Speed Stacking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_stacking

Well, I was really impressed when watching the kids do it.  I thought this was just training for their future wait staff positions, but it really does seem to take some speed and some type of coordination.  I am not still not sure it belongs in PE since all we do is complain about how fat our kids are doing, but it looks impressive none the less.  Here is a video