At lunch this afternoon, I ate a sports bar that just opened recently. The menu did not have a great selection of items, but it did have some bizarre …. culinary delights. In this case I’m not sure “culinary delights” is the appropriate description, but I’m trying to be nice as possible. Among the typical menu listings of a few dozen versions of the hamburger there was the strangest thing: fried pickles. I had to look twice because the first time I really thought I had read it incorrectly. There really were fried pickles on the menu.
This leads to a series of questions. How on earth does it occur to someone to fry a pickle? What kind of person would think a fried pickle might be a tasty thing? Who on earth do you market this to? My answers: Someone had a really bad dream, or possibly they were pregnant. It only appeals to the criminally insane. Apparently you try to sell it to the kinds of people who frequent sports bars (who if today is typical, boils down to lots of single women).