'Dozens of teams use it:' Inside pro sports' modern-day pickle juice phenomenon

[TomSea]

'Dozens of teams use it:' Inside pro sports' modern-day pickle juice phenomenon
Cody Benjamin

When New Jersey Devils center Blake Coleman was spotted downing pickle juice as he stood in the penalty box at a recent NHL game, the sight wasn't shocking save for the fact he was gulping it straight from a pickle jar.

Pickle brine, or the juice boasting a high concentration of sodium, has long had its place on the ice, field and court. Coleman, for one, has been touting the simple concoction as "the one thing that really works" in preventing cramps -- a sentiment that has been shared by athletes for years. Marathoners have come to quench their thirst with it. And the history books will forever deem a 2000 NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles as the "Pickle Juice Game," in which the Eagles claimed to combat record temperatures by drinking -- you guessed it -- pickle juice. Some players even went on to say they would celebrate a potential Super Bowl win with pickle jars rather than champagne bottles.

Continued at: https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/dozens-of-teams-use-it-inside-pro-sports-modern-day-pickle-juice-phenomenon/

[dfwgator]

The Pickle Juice game between the Cowboys and Eagles was not a playoff game.

[RoosGirl]

I guess it's more pleasant than having a salt lick out there for them.

[Sanguine]

I guess it's more pleasant than having a salt lick out there for them.

I dunno.  Could be mildly amusing.

[ConstitutionRose]

I guess it's more pleasant than having a salt lick out there for them.

From the article it sounds like the acid, which triggers some kind of neurological reaction, rather than the salt, which provides the benefit.

[RoosGirl]

From the article it sounds like the acid, which triggers some kind of neurological reaction, rather than the salt, which provides the benefit.

Oh, that's interesting.  I read the part about the high concentration of sodium and stopped reading. 

[Frank Cannon]

This is just a poor mans Gatoraide or Pediasure.

[RoosGirl]

This is just a poor mans Gatoraide or Pediasure.

I'd much rather drink dill pickle juice than Gatoraide.

[TomSea]

The Pickle Juice game between the Cowboys and Eagles was not a playoff game.

Thanks. I did not know.

Anybody:

So, it's any dill pickle juice in a jar or is brine special.

At the big lots store, I got some sausages in brine from Germany and I think often, pickles coming from Israel will say packed in brine.

Maybe I can figure this out myself.

[Frank Cannon]

I'd much rather drink dill pickle juice than Gatoraide.

And that is why you are Satan. Gatoraide is one of the finest beverages ever created......by a slack jawed southern university.

[RoosGirl]

Thanks. I did not know.

Anybody:

So, it's any dill pickle juice in a jar or is brine special.

At the big lots store, I got some sausages in brine from Germany and I think often, pickles coming from Israel will say packed in brine.

Maybe I can figure this out myself.

I've taken to making my own pickles lately.  Brine is traditionally a salt and water mixture.  Pickles made by fermenting cucumbers in brine are "sour pickles", not dill pickles, and don't have the vinegar content that dill pickles do.  I make sour pickles, but then when they are done fermenting I add vinegar because we like that flavor better than the sour pickles.

[RoosGirl]

And that is why you are Satan. Gatoraide is one of the finest beverages ever created......by a slack jawed southern university.

Well, we can agree on two out of three.

[Frank Cannon]

Well, we can agree on two out of three.

True. UF isn't exactly slack jawed. More like charmingly slow.

[RoosGirl]

True. UF isn't exactly slack jawed. More like charmingly slow.

I'll give you a hint.  I didn't go to FSU either, so you're going to have to try harder to insult my alma mater.

[Frank Cannon]

I'll give you a hint.  I didn't go to FSU either, so you're going to have to try harder to insult my alma mater.

I wasn't trying to insult your school. I was intimating that you liking Gatoraide was one of the two things we agreed with. That and you being Satan.

[RoosGirl]

 

[RoosGirl]

I have a picture of my son from when he was probably 3, after being outside with daddy working in the yard, with bright blue all around the outside of his mouth and all over his tongue from drinking that junk.  Hubby won't eat anything with mayo in it, including deviled eggs, but he'll drink that blue crap.  I blame it on whatever nastiness his mother cooked for him when he was little.    ^-^

[Frank Cannon]

Never known you to be left speechless on any topic. I must be on a roll today.

[Frank Cannon]

  I blame it on whatever nastiness his mother cooked for him when he was little.    ^-^

They say men pick a wife similar to their mother. Does that mean you're a shitty cook too?

[RoosGirl]

Never known you to be left speechless on any topic. I must be on a roll today.

God you're handsome in magenta.

[RoosGirl]

They say men pick a wife similar to their mother. Does that mean you're a shitty cook too?

LOL  Probably.  Want to come for dinner?  I just put a beer can chicken on the grill to cook low and slow.  I brined the chicken (I would not recommend drinking this brine, but I would serve it up special for you) overnight in sweet tea and lemon.

[Frank Cannon]

LOL  Probably.  Want to come for dinner?  I just put a beer can chicken on the grill to cook low and slow.  I brined the chicken (I would not recommend drinking this brine, but I would serve it up special for you) overnight in sweet tea and lemon.

I appreciate the offer but I like to relax when I eat dinner. I believe I would be too up tight dining with you worrying if my slice of chicken was the one rubbed down with rat poison.

[RoosGirl]

I'm too much of a gentlewoman to invite someone into my home and then poison them.  Too much cleanup afterwards.

[Frank Cannon]

I'm too much of a gentlewoman to invite someone into my home and then poison them.  Too much cleanup afterwards.

You Madam are a class act. I have an abandoned well on my property for easy clean-up after dinner parties.

[RoosGirl]

You Madam are a class act. I have an abandoned well on my property for easy clean-up after dinner parties.

Filing that info away, right next to the Vaseline with SPF.

[XenaLee]

You Madam are a class act. I have an abandoned well on my property for easy clean-up after dinner parties.

You guys are startin to sound like a couple of damned lazy-minded liberals here.   I mean....  there's always the garden for that clean-up.   Use your imagination.  Get productive!  What the hell.

[RoosGirl]

You guys are startin to sound like a couple of damned lazy-minded liberals here.   I mean....  there's always the garden for that clean-up.   Use your imagination.  Get productive!  What the hell.

The garden is only so big.  Anymore you've got to be real careful where you dig.

[XenaLee]

The garden is only so big.  Anymore you've got to be real careful where you dig.

Oh come on.  Surely (Shirley?).... it's big enough for one little Frank!

[Frank Cannon]

You guys are startin to sound like a couple of damned lazy-minded liberals here.   I mean....  there's always the garden for that clean-up.   Use your imagination.  Get productive!  What the hell.

Lazy? You try finding a place with an unmarked abandoned well.

[roamer_1]

I've taken to making my own pickles lately.  Brine is traditionally a salt and water mixture.  Pickles made by fermenting cucumbers in brine are "sour pickles", not dill pickles, and don't have the vinegar content that dill pickles do.  I make sour pickles, but then when they are done fermenting I add vinegar because we like that flavor better than the sour pickles.

This is no surprise to me - Home remedy folks have been saying all the way along that fermented foods and pickled foods, dropped from our diet with refrigeration... those pickled foods have huge health and energy benefits - restoring ph balance to the body... And I blame quite a bit of my health success upon this... It is true. eat way more pickled and fermented food.

[Frank Cannon]

And I blame quite a bit of my health success upon this... It is true. eat way more pickled and fermented food.

Oh yeah? That include fish?

[XenaLee]

Lazy? You try finding a place with an unmarked abandoned well.

I'd just grab a shovel and dig....  but that's just me.   ^-^

[roamer_1]

I'd just grab a shovel and dig....  but that's just me.   ^-^

There are advantages to living in griz country... jussayin...

[roamer_1]

Oh yeah? That include fish?

Yeah... NO 
Fish are for smoking.

[Frank Cannon]

Yeah... NO 
Fish are for smoking.

Didn't know you could get high off of that, but I'm up for anything.

[RoosGirl]

Oh yeah? That include fish?

Oh gawd...

[roamer_1]

Oh gawd...

That, and haggis.

Pretty much anything else.

[roamer_1]

Didn't know you could get high off of that, but I'm up for anything.

You might be down to that if Cali's pot fields continue to go 'Up in Smoke'. if you know what I mean...

[Bigun]

Yeah... NO 
Fish are for smoking.

Tried to smoke a fish once!  Rolled that sucker up into a big dubie and used a whole box of matches trying to get the damned thing lit!  No joy!  It sucked!

[roamer_1]

Tried to smoke a fish once!  Rolled that sucker up into a big dubie and used a whole box of matches trying to get the damned thing lit!  No joy!  It sucked!

Next time soak it in a tub of diesel overnight before you try to smoke it.
 

[RoosGirl]

That, and haggis.

Pretty much anything else.

Oh yeah, I meant to tell you I found a little private owned slaughter service not too far from me and am getting half a small grass-fed heffer for $3/lb.  That's like half the price of just ground chuck from the regular grocery store I go to.

I'm also trying to get a box of fat from them that I can render, but they have some guy there named "Poncho" that works for them, that takes most of it and renders it and sells it to some of the authentic Mex restaurants in the area.

[Smokin Joe]

I'd much rather drink dill pickle juice than Gatoraide.

Same here--and I do drink it instead of Gatorade. (I drink the juice out of those little yellow chili peppers, and pickled jalapenos, too.)

[roamer_1]

Oh yeah, I meant to tell you I found a little private owned slaughter service not too far from me and am getting half a small grass-fed heffer for $3/lb.  That's like half the price of just ground chuck from the regular grocery store I go to.

WOW! That's an awesome price... I think we are paying around 7.50... I don't really recall, because I am usually in on the raising and partnered into the cow itself...

I'm also trying to get a box of fat from them that I can render, but they have some guy there named "Poncho" that works for them, that takes most of it and renders it and sells it to some of the authentic Mex restaurants in the area.

I am fixin to go get me a new batch right now... should have 10 gallons of suet ready toward the end of next week.

[Bigun]

Next time soak it in a tub of diesel overnight before you try to smoke it.
 

Nah!,  I smoked a Lucky Strike Green out of a box of WWII C rats once . Burned the hair out of my nose before I could get the damned match away from it!

[RoosGirl]

WOW! That's an awesome price... I think we are paying around 7.50... I don't really recall, because I am usually in on the raising and partnered into the cow itself...

I am fixin to go get me a new batch right now... should have 10 gallons of suet ready toward the end of next week.

I know. I was shocked she was selling it to me that cheap.  Black angus.  Sounds like it was a heifer that wasn't playing well with anyone else, so they butchered her before turning the bull into the pasture with all of them.  So it was raised by the owners of the slaughter house.  I think the hanging weight is about 375# for the whole thing.  So, an unplanned slaughter and they need to get rid of the meat; I think I'm just lucking out. 

[Suppressed]

And that is why you are Satan. Gatoraide is one of the finest beverages ever created......by a slack jawed southern university.

At least it wasn't invented at Florida State.  Seminole Fluid just doesn't sound as appetizing.

[Sanguine]

At least it wasn't invented at Florida State.  Seminole Fluid just doesn't sound as appetizing.

 

[RoosGirl]

At least it wasn't invented at Florida State.  Seminole Fluid just doesn't sound as appetizing.

Please do not give @Frank Cannon any more screwy ideas for another get rich quick scheme.

[Frank Cannon]

At least it wasn't invented at Florida State.  Seminole Fluid just doesn't sound as appetizing.

 :thumbsup3:

[roamer_1]

At least it wasn't invented at Florida State.  Seminole Fluid just doesn't sound as appetizing.

 
Oh  man! That was bad. You owe me a KB, monitor, and maybe a set of speakers.