'In the 19th century, there simply was no such a thing as a school lunch (unless it was an act of charity). Children either went home for lunch, went hungry, or were given a penny by their parents to buy food. Streets run amok with penny-wielding kids led at one point to a moral panic about what they were eating—and it wasn't candy, notes Culinary Institute of America food anthropologist Willa Zhen:

"Poor kids were using their pennies to buy pickles, which were considered the addictive, terrible junk food of the time, and people were debating how to keep them away from kids." ' -



So get this, nowadays they add vinegar to pickle jars so that the pickles have that sour taste I crave without having to let them properly ferment.

...but any health benefits a pickle would have are in the fermentation process.



I don't know where I was going with this - I just needed to write about pickles.

Carry on.