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May 27 2005 -- Green.
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The lime is such an underappreciated fruit. People don't call broken cars limes. People don’t spritz lime over their fish or chicken. People don't compare things to how sour a lime tastes. There is not a wide selection of lime flavored vodkas. People don't sit around in the summer time drinking limeade. Poor lime. Your life has been one of sitting in the supermarket and having people look at you with puzzled faces. A life of being brought out only when someone wants to indulge in some tequila. Your life has been one of sorrow and loneliness, much like Kermit told us, it's not easy being green. But Mr. Lime, your time has come. It is time to step out of the shadow cast upon you by your yellow cousin and take your place in the hearts of everyone. Celebrate your new found glory Mr. Lime and enjoy the spotlight. Show your brother Key Lime that he is no longer the only lime in the family who gets to have any fun. This is your time.
That's right! The age of lime is upon us. Showing up in Pepsi, Coke, hotsauce, and now pickles, this truly is the age of the lime.
But lime in pickles? I'm not sure who your agent is, Lime, but he must be a good one if you are getting into things like this. Putting limes into pickles was just something that has never occurred to me so finding this in the isles of my local store I thought to myself "Has that Vlasic bird gone mad?" quickly followed by "Why the heck is lime showing up in everything now?" But let’s not jump to conclusions, lets give it a shot and see if it works.
How about being used on a sandwich? These are sandwich stacker style pickles so I suppose it would be proper to put them to use there.
The victim: a turkey sandwich - mesquite turkey on a half an Italian roll, yellow mustard, American cheese.
The assailant: 2 lime pickles.
The verdict: Nothing. There was no lime flavor at all in any bite I took. It tasted like pickles, sure, but there was no lime or even a hint of lime. Maybe the other ingredients canceled out the lime. I am not sure how I should rate this. 4 cheeses if it was a plain pickle since that's what it tasted like and it was good, but 1 cheese for the whole lime experience since there wasn't one. Sounds like the pickle failed at it's one and only job - being a lime tasting pickle on a sandwich.
Okay, that did not work out at all. Good thing I tried that first or I would have never even bothered with it because trying them on their own did not yield much of a different result. I opened the can up and took a big sniff. Nothing. Smelled like pickles. I selected one, ate it, and tasted like plain dill pickle. I tried about 4 more times. They were good pickles but there was no lime flavor at all in them. So I had someone else try them. Nope, nothing there either. He tried another one just to make sure. Still nothing. He said I should write an angry letter to Vlasic. Maybe I will email them a link to this review instead.
As pickles go they are good. As lime pickles they totally fail on every level. If you remove the lime from the wrapper and sell them as normal ones no one would know the difference.
1 cheese. Sorry lime, but maybe it really isn’t your time to shine. Perhaps you should go back where you belong and shame yourself behind the fruit that knows how to work.
Posted by LordJezo
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