On: Michigan Is the Center of the 'Pickleverse'

[bluedino]

We have a pickle tankyard in our town. Talk about stink.

[hprotagonist → bluedino]

i grew up next to a pig farm. Want to trade?

[analog31 → hprotagonist]

I went to college in a town in Michigan. If the wind blew one way, it was the pickle factory, and the other way, the pig farms.

[bluedino → analog31]

In our case the other smell is the sugar beet plant

[analog31 → bluedino]

There's also the celery. I drove through a valley in western Michigan right after the celery harvest, and the smell was overpowering.

[hprotagonist → analog31]

“and i’m one horrible day in mid-August, they mixed”

[tomjakubowski → hprotagonist]

possible there's some destructive interference in there

[js2 → hprotagonist]

Worse than a paper mill?

[40four → js2]

Wow, paper mills are so bad. Now I want to smell these pickle vats to compare.

Good read though. I love pickles, had no idea they all come from Michigan.

[js2 → 40four]

Ahem, not all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Olive_Pickle_Company

(And that’s not even counting the dozen jars in our pantry that my wife made from the cucumbers she grew in her garden out back!)

[40four → js2]

Lol I was being facetious. As a North Carolina native, I have eaten my fair share of Mt. Olives! Great pickles! Homemade are the best for sure. I have a couple raised beds at a local comunity garden, I am planning on making my own this year as well! Can't wait!

[hprotagonist → js2]

well, differently awful.

i've never been close enough to a tannery to know, but that's historically one of the professions that gets kicked out downwind of towns very quickly.