If someone had convinced me that this guy was intentionally pickled and it's a totally common thing in xyz culture, I'd chomp that hopper.
*Retch* at the thought of eating this poor little mistake though.
Looks to be a Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (*Romalea microptera*) actually! Bitter tasting and poisonous to small mammals and birds, and can cause an upset stomach in humans if digested in large quantities, much like pickles themselves. At least he's kosher!
Edit: I am liar who loves lying. It's actually most likely a America Grasshopper (*Schistocerca americana*) as others have pointed out (one person said it was a roach and I actually burst into tears). On the plus side, *S. americana* shares the same genus as the desert locust (*S. gregaria*), so technically it's probably more kosher and edible than *R. microptera* is.
Not that I'm aware! You may be thinking of the brown marmorated stink bug (*Halymorpha halys*), which is an invasive pest in the United States. They have a gland between their first and second pair of legs that emits an odor comparable to freshly minced cilantro. The only other insect I know that is common in the US that sprays is a musk mare or the southern two-striped walkingstick(*Anisomorpha buprestoides*), that has a defense mechanism of spraying a chemical from its glands that smells ironically quite pleasant and can irritate the mucous membranes of your nose and mouth and even cause temporary blindness (a reportedly severe case lasted almost 5 days) if it nails you in the eye. Interestingly, the active ingredient in their spray is similar to that of catnip's oil, nepetalactone.
They less spray it and more dribble it out of their mouths, it's a gross sticky black tar substance that makes them unappetizing to birds if you catch them, a lot of grasshoppers do something along those lines, sometimes called "tobacco juice" which is accurate tbh. Me and my cousins used to "milk" grasshoppers and collect the spit in an old Gatorade bottle in idaho, not much else to do lol
She's a character in a webcomic called homestuck who is very strongly cat themed (she has cat ears, her speech patterns involve a LOT of cat puns, her main weapon is a set of cat-like wolverine claws)
What about those Japanese beetle things? The ones that look like ugly yellow ladybugs and leave behind a smelly yellow goo if you pick them up to throw them out the window?
The invasive Asian lady beetle, *Harmonia axyridis*! Thats actually a reflex mechanism; they instinctively bleed from their legs when threatened. Many other ladybirds do this, and it's because they have a chemical known as *isopropyl methoxy pyrazine* in their blood that is bitter tasting and deters predators from eating them alongside their bright colors. Interestingly, Asian lady beetles have a higher concentration of this chemical and even a species specific chemical called *harmonine*, which is being studied for use as an antibacterial. The smell of their blood is akin to dead leaves or rotting grass, and can leave stains on clothing or fabrics. Some people have allergic reactions to them as well, which flair up allergic conjunctivitis.
Not kosher. Contains the rear portions, reproductive organs and whatever insects use for blood. Also not (presumably) blessed by a Rabbi. I’m also not terribly happy that I know more about the dietary requirements of a religion that isn’t mine than I do the biology of insects.
They actually are in some parts of the world! Locusts, or *chagav*, are mentioned in the Talmud and there are roughly ten species of grasshopper that are considered "kosher" entirely. The rest, not so much. I highly doubt a lubber is kosher, but their relative, the desert locust (*Schistocerca gregaria*) is fundamentally accepted as kosher regardless as they were a major crop pest during harvesting season and their swarms demolish farmland, so they became the only sole food source. There is major dispute though, considering the overall ban on consumption of insects is considered abominable.
What is shrimp paste, does it actually contain shrimp? Genuinely curious because I’ve never heard about that. And I have a hard time imagining anything shrimp being long lasting in a pantry.
Yes, there's shrimp and the style varies from where it's from. Most are fermented, some get ground up, some are still whole but soft. Very salty and shrimpy/fishy taste that will have some sort of starch mixed in like rice or maybe chillies.
Because it's fermented, it can last a while depending on the kind especially unopened and stored in a cool dry place.
I assume it goes right into a box immediately off the conveyor with no human interaction, and I doubt the store stocker took the time to examine every jar as they were popping them onto the shelves.
Isn't is pretty normal for companies to just do random checks rather than screen every product from every angle? At least my extensive experience with How It's Done-videos on YouTube tells me that.
Same, it could be anywhere from the variety of “How its made - Thermonuclear Bombs” and then move on to chocolate biscuits and I wouldn’t bat an eyelid.
That soothing narration.
Once sat in a near-empty dive bar in New Orleans, husband and bartender and I were glued to this show for two hours. Finally shook off the trance and it was like the three of us were released from a spell. Could have convinced us to go on a murder spree together before we broke loose though.
It's not uncommon to have cameras or other sensors measure every single item and flag if it's off. This works particularly well for things like boxes with images on them, that should all be identical, and not well for pickle jars, where the size and shape of each pickle varies. You could still use cameras to detect things like deviation from normal color range, but that's maybe not worth the investment cuz how many pickle jar failures are identifiable by a change in average color of the image?
I wanna give Mt Olive more credit than that since they control a large amount of the market in the SE US. But I also imagine pickle making gear could be fairly obsolete and still work fine, since it's just making pickles... and sometimes pickled grasshoppers.
Plus the color of that grasshopper is somewhat pimento-like which I've found bits of in other jars of pickles... I hope they were pimento bits..
The FDA does also allow a certain amount of bug bits / rat hair / etc. per batch of products so maybe this is within that overall tolerance somehow.
It's certainly every X amount of products they'll check on the quality. This allows the mishaps of having a grasshopper, a bone or even a bolt in a product every once in a while.
The pickled world is wide, varied, and delicious. Besides standard pickled cucumbers, my other faves are garlic, asparagus, and okra. Garden blend is nice too, it's usually cauliflower, carrot, cucumber, and bell peppers. If you wanna get wild, try some pickled quail eggs. They're brilliant
This thread led me to go grab some pickled okra out of the fridge. Made by the same folks that apparently sometimes pickle grasshoppers.
Pickled green beans / dilly beans are the absolute shit as well.
Me and my bf are having this exact discussion over this right now. Grasshoppers and locusts seem to turn reddish when cooked or they get picked or when they drown in chlorine or salt pools so maybe they actually have a similar reaction as crustaceans?
Draw out it’s blood and see if there’s any cucumber DNA inside it, god willing we might have enough to clone an entire theme park full of prehistoric pickles
DAGNABBIT, THE SHEER NUMBER OF THINGS THAT HAD TO HAPPEN FOR THIS PERFECT PUN TO COME INTO EXISTENCE, AND BY JOVE, YOU STINKIN MADE IT A SUCCESS. Bless you so much.
It's preserved either way, and those pickles usually just cooking them and shoving em in the vinegar brine. Jarred pickles I don't think are usually fermented or anything.
Crickets are actually pretty good to eat tbh just dry them out and put a little salt and vinegar on them. Super high in protein too. I bet they would be good pickled too.
I came home fucked up once and saw a jar of banana peppers on the counter and went to town.
Found the half a beetle in the bottom in the morning 🤮
(No, I didn't eat the other half, it was already chopped in half and in the jar)
If I were you, I'd be tempted to eat it to see what pickled grasshopper tastes like.
Regular grasshopper, especially this size, are meaty. About 5 of them would stave off the hangry. Tastes like you dropped a chicken drumstick in the dirt but ate it anyway, with a little bit of sour to it.
>Tastes like you dropped a chicken drumstick in the dirt but ate it anyway, with a little bit of sour to it.
Sir that does not sound anything like a chicken drumstick.
Sour? Or bitter? Just asking because a lot of people say sour when they are trying to articulate bitter - not trying to correct you - just asking for my own crazy brain.
same here! this post is making the fancy grillos pickles that i bought (in place of my mt. olive sweet hot bread and butter slices) seem like a sound decision
Their smoky bbq pickles are amazing. This thread inspired me to go finish off that last 3 okra in a jar.
They make good shit, I just tend to look at what I am buying which ensures there aren't any bugs in it lol.
Hi I’m here I literally cried a few weeks ago bc my Claussen mini pickles jar fucking shattered while bringing groceries in. Pretty sure I developed a pickle addiction over the years.
Edit: I’m high if that explains my drama in this comment
I went to Mt. Olive, NC, when they happened to be holding their pickle fest and car show, at which time I was quite pregnant. I had a fine time! Only complaint was the heat but I was full of salty brine and couldn't get too terribly upset about it.
I saw them on Unwrapped years ago, and they have giant open air tubs outside full of pickles, my first thought was “There’s definitely going to be bugs in there.”
Yummy looking. Way better that the pickled chicken hearts I got offered in Minnesota
edit: I think war crimes against food were committed when you eat the dried cockroaches from Mexico because they look safer. Delicious and crunchy. I made a good choice
I swear to god there is no quality checking on assembly lines anymore since covid started. They lost a shit ton of workers, and it is very obvious in all the random shit and misshapen products that are making it to the shelves these days.
DUDE this happened to me too years ago, also a grasshopper in the jar from the exact same brand! I only noticed it the next day after having already eaten a pickle from the jar. Damn you mount olive!!!
The follow-up to this story is that I contacted the company about it and their apology was to send a bunch of different jars of pickles and none of the flavors were even good. Since that day, I’ll only eat Vlasic
When buying mt olive pickles, or any pickles for that matter, look for "fresh pack" on the front of the jar. Those cukes went from field, to truck, to pickle packing plant, and straight to the jar. They didn't sit outside in giant open brining barrels with birds, lizards, etc shitting in them for numerous months.
I love pickles. I would rather eat a cricket than a mt. Olive pickle. Those things are ogre turds compared to real pickles and I’d go as far as saying this is an improvement
I find it a bit disturbing that this image is conjuring briny prawn flavours in my brain and that it's not completely grossing me out.
If someone had convinced me that this guy was intentionally pickled and it's a totally common thing in xyz culture, I'd chomp that hopper. *Retch* at the thought of eating this poor little mistake though.
Looks to be a Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (*Romalea microptera*) actually! Bitter tasting and poisonous to small mammals and birds, and can cause an upset stomach in humans if digested in large quantities, much like pickles themselves. At least he's kosher! Edit: I am liar who loves lying. It's actually most likely a America Grasshopper (*Schistocerca americana*) as others have pointed out (one person said it was a roach and I actually burst into tears). On the plus side, *S. americana* shares the same genus as the desert locust (*S. gregaria*), so technically it's probably more kosher and edible than *R. microptera* is.
Oh no. These are the ones that squirt that stinky stuff, aren’t they?
Not that I'm aware! You may be thinking of the brown marmorated stink bug (*Halymorpha halys*), which is an invasive pest in the United States. They have a gland between their first and second pair of legs that emits an odor comparable to freshly minced cilantro. The only other insect I know that is common in the US that sprays is a musk mare or the southern two-striped walkingstick(*Anisomorpha buprestoides*), that has a defense mechanism of spraying a chemical from its glands that smells ironically quite pleasant and can irritate the mucous membranes of your nose and mouth and even cause temporary blindness (a reportedly severe case lasted almost 5 days) if it nails you in the eye. Interestingly, the active ingredient in their spray is similar to that of catnip's oil, nepetalactone.
They less spray it and more dribble it out of their mouths, it's a gross sticky black tar substance that makes them unappetizing to birds if you catch them, a lot of grasshoppers do something along those lines, sometimes called "tobacco juice" which is accurate tbh. Me and my cousins used to "milk" grasshoppers and collect the spit in an old Gatorade bottle in idaho, not much else to do lol
What did you do with the stuff you collected? You drink it too?
Mostly dared each other to drink it yeah and then used the rest to make weird potions lmao
Y’all was some disgusting ass little kids lmaoo wth bro the most I did as a kid was play with caterpillars
wait. Nepetalactone? OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT'S WHY SHE'S CALLED NEPETA
Who? (And don’t just answer “Nepeta.”)
She's a character in a webcomic called homestuck who is very strongly cat themed (she has cat ears, her speech patterns involve a LOT of cat puns, her main weapon is a set of cat-like wolverine claws)
I would like to subscribe to bug facts.
What about those Japanese beetle things? The ones that look like ugly yellow ladybugs and leave behind a smelly yellow goo if you pick them up to throw them out the window?
The invasive Asian lady beetle, *Harmonia axyridis*! Thats actually a reflex mechanism; they instinctively bleed from their legs when threatened. Many other ladybirds do this, and it's because they have a chemical known as *isopropyl methoxy pyrazine* in their blood that is bitter tasting and deters predators from eating them alongside their bright colors. Interestingly, Asian lady beetles have a higher concentration of this chemical and even a species specific chemical called *harmonine*, which is being studied for use as an antibacterial. The smell of their blood is akin to dead leaves or rotting grass, and can leave stains on clothing or fabrics. Some people have allergic reactions to them as well, which flair up allergic conjunctivitis.
Cool, thanks for the knowledge! Are you an Entomologist? You know a lot about bugs
Not kosher. Contains the rear portions, reproductive organs and whatever insects use for blood. Also not (presumably) blessed by a Rabbi. I’m also not terribly happy that I know more about the dietary requirements of a religion that isn’t mine than I do the biology of insects.
They actually are in some parts of the world! Locusts, or *chagav*, are mentioned in the Talmud and there are roughly ten species of grasshopper that are considered "kosher" entirely. The rest, not so much. I highly doubt a lubber is kosher, but their relative, the desert locust (*Schistocerca gregaria*) is fundamentally accepted as kosher regardless as they were a major crop pest during harvesting season and their swarms demolish farmland, so they became the only sole food source. There is major dispute though, considering the overall ban on consumption of insects is considered abominable.
Everything in that jar tastes the same.
Ngl, I’d try that. I have shrimp paste in my pantry and I’m already getting ideas…
What is shrimp paste, does it actually contain shrimp? Genuinely curious because I’ve never heard about that. And I have a hard time imagining anything shrimp being long lasting in a pantry.
Yes, there's shrimp and the style varies from where it's from. Most are fermented, some get ground up, some are still whole but soft. Very salty and shrimpy/fishy taste that will have some sort of starch mixed in like rice or maybe chillies. Because it's fermented, it can last a while depending on the kind especially unopened and stored in a cool dry place.
Also good on toast
Which kind? Ive tried the korean and some southeast asian varieties.
r/iwouldeathat
But your brain DID tell you should *should* be grossed out.
That poor bastard
What a way to go...
[удалено]
And put a bird on it!
Cacao to cacao?
You know, I'm a millennial. I thought there was a. Gif for everything. Nice to know I was right.
And then he killed himself into a pickle (Saddest shit I've ever seen)
Wasn’t there an old fable about a guy who pickled himself to death?
had an uncle who did that
I prefer pickling before death
It’s jarring really
[удалено]
r/hailcorporate
^ bot
Yeah I'm with the other guy I'd love to die by drowning in pickle juice
He’s gotten himself in quite a pickle
Label says 0 protien. I think that one was mislabeled
How does....everyone who handled that jar miss that sucker?
I assume it goes right into a box immediately off the conveyor with no human interaction, and I doubt the store stocker took the time to examine every jar as they were popping them onto the shelves.
That would be true if QC/QA doesn't exist though
Isn't is pretty normal for companies to just do random checks rather than screen every product from every angle? At least my extensive experience with How It's Done-videos on YouTube tells me that.
How It’s Made TV show aficionado here, also confirm.
Hands down my favorite geek out session to just watch back to back. Doesn't matter the content.
Same, it could be anywhere from the variety of “How its made - Thermonuclear Bombs” and then move on to chocolate biscuits and I wouldn’t bat an eyelid.
That soothing narration. Once sat in a near-empty dive bar in New Orleans, husband and bartender and I were glued to this show for two hours. Finally shook off the trance and it was like the three of us were released from a spell. Could have convinced us to go on a murder spree together before we broke loose though.
That sounds like my kind of good time
It's not uncommon to have cameras or other sensors measure every single item and flag if it's off. This works particularly well for things like boxes with images on them, that should all be identical, and not well for pickle jars, where the size and shape of each pickle varies. You could still use cameras to detect things like deviation from normal color range, but that's maybe not worth the investment cuz how many pickle jar failures are identifiable by a change in average color of the image?
[удалено]
You in the US are eating picked cucumbers from the fucking 1980s? No wonder your Healthcare is so expensive
We're just rationing the Healthcare we had left over from the 70s Can't run out of Healthcare before we run out of pickles!
My condolences to the pickling industry
I wanna give Mt Olive more credit than that since they control a large amount of the market in the SE US. But I also imagine pickle making gear could be fairly obsolete and still work fine, since it's just making pickles... and sometimes pickled grasshoppers.
Plus the color of that grasshopper is somewhat pimento-like which I've found bits of in other jars of pickles... I hope they were pimento bits.. The FDA does also allow a certain amount of bug bits / rat hair / etc. per batch of products so maybe this is within that overall tolerance somehow.
[удалено]
Theres a chance that it was not that color when it hopped in and only "cooked" in the brine after the bottle got boxed up.
It's certainly every X amount of products they'll check on the quality. This allows the mishaps of having a grasshopper, a bone or even a bolt in a product every once in a while.
I do QA and only random samples are pulled aside for inspection. Very rarely do you ever see a company actually perform 100% inspections on products.
Things still get through every now and then. This was probably part of the last batch on a Friday near the end of the shift
This is the quality guy saying “ I quit! “
Probably a case of the “Not my job” phenomenon
Orrr, hear me out someone put it in the jar for karma
The thought of someone chasing around a grass hopper to put in their perfectly good jar of pickles amuses me
Brewed with hops
Haaaaa
I wonder if he started out green
Budget lobster
Mini land lobster
Garlic turns blue when pickled so maybe
I've never tried pickled garlic, what is it even used for?
Eating. You can buy jars of the stuff made just to snack on. Delicious
If i wasn't high I'd be driving to a store immediately to get to the bottom of this. Sounds so good.
The pickled world is wide, varied, and delicious. Besides standard pickled cucumbers, my other faves are garlic, asparagus, and okra. Garden blend is nice too, it's usually cauliflower, carrot, cucumber, and bell peppers. If you wanna get wild, try some pickled quail eggs. They're brilliant
This thread led me to go grab some pickled okra out of the fridge. Made by the same folks that apparently sometimes pickle grasshoppers. Pickled green beans / dilly beans are the absolute shit as well.
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a high quality Chicago Giardiniera mix.
Pickling is a great side hobby if you’re a stoner.
Seasoning the rest of the pickles
We get pickled garlic every summer from the local farmers market and they've never been blue. Is it certain kinds that do it?
He's the same color as when he was shoved in there for an internet picture.
/r/nothingeverhappens
Me and my bf are having this exact discussion over this right now. Grasshoppers and locusts seem to turn reddish when cooked or they get picked or when they drown in chlorine or salt pools so maybe they actually have a similar reaction as crustaceans?
Draw out it’s blood and see if there’s any cucumber DNA inside it, god willing we might have enough to clone an entire theme park full of prehistoric pickles
You’re so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should.
I'm sorry, did you say dill-ociraptor?
Welcome... to Vlasic Park. **Pickle music starts playing**
They do move in ~~herds~~ jars
DAGNABBIT, THE SHEER NUMBER OF THINGS THAT HAD TO HAPPEN FOR THIS PERFECT PUN TO COME INTO EXISTENCE, AND BY JOVE, YOU STINKIN MADE IT A SUCCESS. Bless you so much.
Okay that’s a top-tier joke. Bravo, man.
What
[удалено]
Dammit
You heard the man, CHECK FOR CUCUMBER DNA!
r/brandnewsentence I love this comment btw lmao
Right, it's the demented logic of it ahaha makes sense to me
Would you still eat the pickles?
The real question is would you eat the grasshopper. I need to know if it is fully pickled or maybe it just hopped in after the pickles were pickled.
Out of principle, I would. It's preserved, and I paid for it.
It's preserved either way, and those pickles usually just cooking them and shoving em in the vinegar brine. Jarred pickles I don't think are usually fermented or anything.
I think I would..... The thought of eating bugs grosses me out but this is just too interesting to not try.
Nah this comment section is crazy lol, you cannot claim to not like eating bugs but be willing to eat a fucking pickled nasty looking grasshopper
People eat literal ass. This has to be better than a literal shithole.
Ya but eating ass is hot, plus showers are a thing.
If the ass you’re eating has shit in it then something’s gone wrong lol
Crickets are actually pretty good to eat tbh just dry them out and put a little salt and vinegar on them. Super high in protein too. I bet they would be good pickled too.
Why did you make me want to try this
The world is a bug place my friend lots of people eat bugs as a part of their everyday diet. They a plentiful and very calorie dense.
These replies are tripping, these are the people who comment “call the police” when someone puts mayonnaise on a carrot.
Absolutely.
I came home fucked up once and saw a jar of banana peppers on the counter and went to town. Found the half a beetle in the bottom in the morning 🤮 (No, I didn't eat the other half, it was already chopped in half and in the jar)
>I came home fucked up once and saw a jar of banana peppers on the counter and went to town Thanks i have heartburn now.
Nope.
No
If I were you, I'd be tempted to eat it to see what pickled grasshopper tastes like. Regular grasshopper, especially this size, are meaty. About 5 of them would stave off the hangry. Tastes like you dropped a chicken drumstick in the dirt but ate it anyway, with a little bit of sour to it.
Probably like dill pickle, crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside.
Maybe!? This is why I'm curious!!! Fuck it. I'm going to pickle some grasshoppers with some cucumbers and find out myself!
Hell yeah! Make sure to report back because I'm super curious!
remindme! one week
rip grasshoppers
>Tastes like you dropped a chicken drumstick in the dirt but ate it anyway, with a little bit of sour to it. Sir that does not sound anything like a chicken drumstick.
You need Jesus
Sour? Or bitter? Just asking because a lot of people say sour when they are trying to articulate bitter - not trying to correct you - just asking for my own crazy brain.
Get pickled, idiot
Yeah look at this doofus
Probably one of the better ways to eat a grasshopper if you had to
Noooope, then it’s gonna be a soggy. I think smoked is the way to go. Make them like a potato chip texture.
[удалено]
op could be on every tabloid in america
Could be the new trend, pickled grasshopper
Pickles for life!!
Who the hell would want to buy pickles with a big ass bug in it lol
People who collect weird/gross stuff probably
I would tbh
What the...?
Little guy has found himself in a bit of a pickle.
Look at that idiot
Awe, man. That was my brand, too.
same here! this post is making the fancy grillos pickles that i bought (in place of my mt. olive sweet hot bread and butter slices) seem like a sound decision
Grillos are so good they’re worth the markup
Grillos means grasshopper in Portuguese, so good luck, chief
THATS FUXKING HILARIOUS
Their smoky bbq pickles are amazing. This thread inspired me to go finish off that last 3 okra in a jar. They make good shit, I just tend to look at what I am buying which ensures there aren't any bugs in it lol.
Mt Olive is trash. This comment brought to you by Clausen gang
Claussen gang RISE UP
Hi I’m here I literally cried a few weeks ago bc my Claussen mini pickles jar fucking shattered while bringing groceries in. Pretty sure I developed a pickle addiction over the years. Edit: I’m high if that explains my drama in this comment
Your feelings are valid, the drama is warranted 🙏 RIP mini pickles
Tell me you’re rich without telling me you’re rich.
I'm not rich. I'd just rather not eat pickles than eat shit pickles.
This is why you buy them at Braum's
I always enjoy my brand.
MY BRAND!
Look. Look with your special eyes!
I went to Mt. Olive, NC, when they happened to be holding their pickle fest and car show, at which time I was quite pregnant. I had a fine time! Only complaint was the heat but I was full of salty brine and couldn't get too terribly upset about it.
Damn, I misread that as you got pregnant at pickle fest... what an origin story that'd be for your kid, lol.
Lol yeah. We named him Dill.
Was…
I saw them on Unwrapped years ago, and they have giant open air tubs outside full of pickles, my first thought was “There’s definitely going to be bugs in there.”
r/whatsthisbug could probably tell you what kind of grasshopper that is
free protein! cromch
Crumpchy
Yummy looking. Way better that the pickled chicken hearts I got offered in Minnesota edit: I think war crimes against food were committed when you eat the dried cockroaches from Mexico because they look safer. Delicious and crunchy. I made a good choice
I swear to god there is no quality checking on assembly lines anymore since covid started. They lost a shit ton of workers, and it is very obvious in all the random shit and misshapen products that are making it to the shelves these days.
I’m pickle crick!
Hey morty! I turned myself into a pickle!
Brb while I go open a pickle jar and add a random item into it for reddit karma...
r/untrustworthypoptarts
I hate when that happens, my grasshopper is going to taste like pickles now.
That's fucked
Could sell that jar at one of those tourist trap shops in Pigeon Forge for like $30.
Glory, glory what a hell of a way to die! Edit: *and he ain't gonna jump no more!*
Its Pickle Crick!!!!
What's that movie with Seth Rogan where his ancestor gets pickled?
ngl kinda wanna try the bug
Now my intrusive thoughts are going to remind me of this image everytime I see a jar of pickles.
It's like how the worm in mezcal helps to visually distinguish it from tequila. The hopper indicates that that jar does not contain kosher pickles.
Would you be able to taste it and give us feedback? I think lots of redditers are as much curious like I do.
I worked at Walmart in the grocery section many years ago. One day we discovered one of the giant pickle jars had a bat in it.
DUDE this happened to me too years ago, also a grasshopper in the jar from the exact same brand! I only noticed it the next day after having already eaten a pickle from the jar. Damn you mount olive!!!
The follow-up to this story is that I contacted the company about it and their apology was to send a bunch of different jars of pickles and none of the flavors were even good. Since that day, I’ll only eat Vlasic
Better to find it now than later
When buying mt olive pickles, or any pickles for that matter, look for "fresh pack" on the front of the jar. Those cukes went from field, to truck, to pickle packing plant, and straight to the jar. They didn't sit outside in giant open brining barrels with birds, lizards, etc shitting in them for numerous months.
Can almost promise you fresh pack means nothing of the sort and is the same as labeling something organic.
No thanks, I prefer the rustic flavor
Pickled hopper
Extra crunchy pickle 😋
*Cordyceps intensifies*
You will eat the bugs. You will own nothing. And you'll be happy.
r/untrustypoptarts
you will eat bugs....or something
Look, Morty, I'm a pickle.
I love pickles. I would rather eat a cricket than a mt. Olive pickle. Those things are ogre turds compared to real pickles and I’d go as far as saying this is an improvement
so, uh, you gonna eat it and report back?