Slow Day in the Pickle ‘Hood

Why don’t blondes eat pickes?

Because they can’t get their head out of the jar J

Before you get offended, please know, I am blonde and a little lacking for material today.

Today’s pickle was the baby dill pickle from 365 Everyday Value, which is sort of like Whole Foods version of generic.  When reading up a little on this brand I found a couple blogs and websites that stated that 365 Everyday Value is not as organic as it may claim.  It has “natural flavors” on the label, which is really code for chemicals.  I found this on vegsource.com.

The exact definition of natural flavorings & flavors from Title 21, Section 101, part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations is as follows:

"The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional."

So if it is derived from nature it can be considered Natural.  That doesn’t seem right.  This is all a tangent though…

The pickle was good!  I like baby dills in general.  These had a good flavor, an okay color and of course are fun sized, which in reality means I had to eat about five of them to get my pickle fix.  My five year old son loves baby dills because it is the right amount of pickle for him.  A jar of baby dills is the right amount of pickle for me!

So I would like to start a campaign to change the industry standard of naming pickles baby dills to fun sized dills.  They do it with candy all the time.  I do think it is dishonest marketing.  After all, wouldn’t a fun size chocolate bar really be twice the size.  In fact, maybe my campaign should be the opposite and I should campaign for fun sized candy bars to be changed to baby candy bars. 

The title of my blog, “the Fickle Pickle” has caused a little tension around my household.  Alberto, who is normally very witty and cleaver lacked in ideas, or should I say, lacked in ideas I liked.  My friend, Kristin is the one who came up with the Fickle Pickle.  Thank you Kristin.   I wanted to take the time to thanks my son, Jacob for my second favorite idea, “Super Pickle in Super Pickle Land.”  Now, I did introduce Super Pickle yesterday, so maybe I should have gone with his idea.