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Posted On: September 17th 2007
Posted By: Adam Coozer
Source: Newsday |
Throngs swarm LES for pickle fest
An estimated 50,000 pickles met their end Sunday afternoon as the devoted, the curious, and the merely hungry descended on Orchard Street for the 7th Annual NYC International Pickle Day.
"I thought this would be a magnanimous event and didn't realize pickle lovers were such ravenous vultures," joked Douglas Calhoun, 23, of Brooklyn, as he munched on a jar of pickled Okra.
The line for Guss' Pickles on Orchard stretched down most the block, and free samples of pickled turnips, onions, cabbage and other veggies were snatched up as fast as the 15 venders could serve them up. A local pizzeria did a brisk business in pepperoni and pickle slices.
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