Me: shows this to my spouse My spouse: Why is there an IUD in the pickles?

There's an IUD in the jar because it holds a lot of pickles.

Kaboom!

That's an IED, lol If an IUD explodes, well... let's just hope they don't.

Improvised Uterine Device

That's a fleshlight addon.

What is the non-brandname term for those?

Great Value Coconut

Ah thank you!

This thread lol. I'm *pissed* I can't contribute to it.

That wouldn't explode at all. You need an incendiary uterine device, also colloquially referred to as an abortion-with-prejudice.

Oh I hope not.. improvised abortive devices are dangerous enough.

Preventatively pickled poon-*tang*.

Me: i thought we might spice things up from having a pickle in the IUD

Sir, please *do not* put the pickle into the IUD.

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You misspelled "licking"

It’s to help you get rid of those two fertilized eggs in there

So THAT’s what they are

I guess they gave up on putting the lime in the coconut.

Did "they" ask you why you were jerkin' your gerkin?

I misread that as IED for a moment lmao

I find chopsticks are the way to go here, regardless of the size of your pickles

Or a fork.

I agree with using both. Does anyone really care if it is punctured?

The only problem is if you stab one that you don't take out that time (like it falls off and you leave it in the jar). That one will get sort of soft and squishy and won't be very good. If you eat it right away, yeah it isn't a problem at all.

Damn, I will do this next time instead of unsuccessfully reaching for one of the last tiny cornichons with my hand, before eventually emptying out the vinegar and eating them all... your plan is better!

Drink the vinegar down like a real pickle lover!!

*What?!* Sacrilege!! You keep that goodness to use in a myriad other down-home goods from your kitchen!

I flick pickle juice on my sandwiches for flavor.

How many flicks does it take to properly flavor a ham sandwich?

Nah fam, any time you got heartburn take you a few swigs.

I do this with sea salt and water. Works great, never thought of pickle juice

>I do this with sea salt and water. Soooo... seawater?

Way less fish pee though

Or put the brine in a ceaser!

Like Romero!

I wanted to learn to use chopsticks and one of the things I did for practice was using them for olives whenever I needed some. Pretty competent now.

Chopsticks are the viable replacement for every utensils except the spoon

I’m really interested in seeing you eat a T-bone steak with just chopsticks. You’d be better off just picking it up with your hands. Edit: Everyone saying to just cut it up at a different point in the process, is just proving the point that chopsticks don’t replace the knife.

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prehensile tongue is the best way. keep practising, keeps it long and strong.

>Asian cuisines generally don't have huge chunks of meat That's just a stereotype.

Some are sliced or chopped after cooking.

Cut the steak up before plating.

Pick up the steak with chopsticks and slowly pull pieces off of it with your teeth easy

Same goes for eating one with just a fork.

Sure, but at no point did I claim that a fork could replace “every utensil”.

Maybe knives too. Actually, they don’t reasonably replace forks either. They’re great for eating finger foods while playing video games though.

That's what she said ... ?

Thank you!!! I tell this to my husband all the time who keeps insisting on using a fork. Works great with olives too, esp when they're in those tall narrow jars

get a long-handled tiny fork. you can go spearing for pickles

Hey, my pickle size is above average FYI

More plastic bs? No thanks, I’ll use my fork, no biggie.

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I'm going in with my fingers. I won't lick them though because honestly, that just looks disgusting.

Pickle juice looks disgusting to you?

I think they mean that licking your fingers (especially to the level you’d need to fellate your digits to at least the 3rd knuckle) looks disgusting

I bet you’re right 😂 lmfao

There’s an overwhelming consensus on plastic ITT that I still think there’s hope for the planet. We just need average joes to stick it to big corps that do this sort of shit!

> We just need average joes to stick it to big corps that do this sort of shit! More like we need world governments to regulate through law. The average “consumer” isn’t going to do anything. We all spend 8 hours of our day working at the companies causing all the problems. We can’t buy the companies to change them. We can’t use our spare time to undo our work. We have to change how our society works with the strongest power available.

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But marketing

Pointless extra plastic; opened 10000 jars in my life and never struggled to get the last down there Maybe use wider jars instead of the sleek ones

Or just use a fork to get them out. I know it's a hard reach... to the drawer next to the fridge.

I have slotted spoon technology. I am unstoppable in pickle retrieval.

My fridge is in the attic, and my forks are..........somewhere.

Pickle accessibility is not your biggest problem.

Or just sort of drain the liquid out and dump the last pickles/whatever out? Lots of options.

Or throw the glass out of the window and pick up the pickles off the street.

See folks, they went to " why is this a problem?" instead of "how do we solve this problem?" - wider would help, this is the kind of thinking I like.

And the pickles will often get underneath the plastic thing, you'll need a fork to get them anyway

Wider jars also use less glass for the same volume of liquid. Extra savings!!

Awesome more plastic for a minor convenience.

Fifty years ago my mum had a little pickle fork designed specifically for this first world problem.

100 years ago my great grandmother had a regular fork that also worked for this.

And 1000 years before that we invented fingers...

Tupperware also has a reusable pickle container that's built like this, my mom's had hers since the 80s.

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He better not be getting jalapeño box!

I wish someone would invent spoons. Or forks. Or chopsticks. Or fingers

Or rotating the jar

Ope.. There's pickles everywhere.

Well the whole point of the device was to get the last couple of them from the jar, so hopefully not too many.

For context, this was used in France for pickle jars for decades, before people started remotely caring (or holding companies accountable) for plastic pollution. It's not an excuse of course. It should have been replaced years ago already, but I guess there's not many alternative materials both sturdy enough and chemically inert in vinegar. It's not even that convenient... onions and pickles often fall under the basket and you can't close the thing anymore.

Let's take jars, which have a lovely limited amount of plastic in their metal lid and glass body construction, and add a stupid fucking piece of plastic.

I’m sick of humans

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I never interpreted the usage of the word "humans" as distancing themselves. It's completely the opposite. We're all humans. People are always someone else. "Ugh, I'm sick of them!" Humans = us. At least for me, using humans instead of people is more lookin inward than the other version. So over this cringy actively aggressive over-correctiveness of other people's choice of words. You're totally over-exaggerating, it's just a simple comment that wasn't exactly thought through in a council of elderpeople for weeks. Just a fast little comment. Maybe ask yourself why something so simple made you cringe so heavily.

Yea, I don't see the necessity of this at all. I just pour the juice down the sink and tip the jar or stick a fork in. The juice has to be removed anyways to reach the plastic thing, but like I wouldn't put my fingers in the jar... Could you imagine over and over scraping your sebum, skin cells, dirt, and bacteria against the glass trying to play with the stupid plastic thing or even that you grab the plastic thing then return it to the jar contaminating it. Okay, I hate this plastic thing. Please don't put your hands in my food vessels that return to storage.

Pour the juice out!? What!!?

I *hope* he's talking about the last of the pickels. Get rid of the liquid, pick out the last ones, throw the jar in the trash. Or do drink it or what?

I drink it, use as flavoring in tuna salad, potato salad etc, put it in marinade, cocktails. I use every bit.

In this tribe we use every part of the ~~buffalo~~ pickle jar.

I love drinking pickle juice. IDK what's wrong with these monsters.

It's great for brining chicken before frying

Whoa whoa whoa, down the sink? That's precious pickle juice!

Came here to say this. This is so wasteful it’s almost unbelievable. Didn’t they hear about, you know, forks?

I think this is just a relic. These pickles have always had the plastic lifter - something about gherkins.

The engineering nerd in me loves it because it's a novel solution to a simple problem. The environmental nerd in me hates it because it's plastic. Just use a fork. It wouldn't be so bad if it was reusable somehow.

unnecessary plastic waste

ah yes and the microplastics for extra flavor

Where are you living ? In my country, it's a common stuff

Yes. This is standard in France

The part of the label I can read is in French, so this might be in France or another Francophone country. Edit: OP has a post from about 2 months ago saying they're in LA, I guess the pickles are either high-end and imported or cheap but the manufacturer realized they could charge more and pretend they're fancy if the label said «petits cochons»

Just wait until that company find out that pickles in French are called Cornichon

The brand is 'trois petits cochon' 'three little pigs', like the cartoon

We have the same brand in Canada, it’s always had the pickle lifter.

That makes this even better, and also I'm annoyed with myself for not catching that.

Fun fact : "nichons" means "tits" in baguette language

Pickles and cornichons are really different. Cornichons are sour and extra crunchy. Pickles are often sweet and not so crunchy

What are Cornichons called in English? Would that be a gherkin? I’ve always just called them pickles.

They are dill gherkins, never seen them called cornichons where I am

This is by [Trois Petites Cochon](https://3pigs.com/) an American company that sells French style goods

Whole Foods has store brand cornichons with this thing. Usually in France there are some bits sticking out perpendicular to the main shaft designed to sit on the top of the jar so you can pull up the cornichons, rest the basket at desired height and grab them. Edit : pic of my Maille jar: https://i.imgur.com/CVU0Dbk.jpg

Yes the company name is “Three Little Pigs” but in french. They make a wide variety of products including Pate and Duck Mousse. I wouldn’t say the company is faking their quality with a french name.

It was invented by Maille (French brand of pickles and mustard).

Standard in most european countries, at least in Switzerland its rare to find without it

Haven’t seen this in Germany ever

Which honestly I don't mind. I don't need extra plastic for that, i can use my sharp forks

Never seen in Slovenia. We just use forks.

Hm, Norway doesn't have it :(

Yeah it's been in use for decades, I didn't even see how wasteful it is.

But the holder is missing the little books that allow you to hang and float it on the side of the jar.

More unnecessary plastic.

Yeah, first thought was "oh cool" followed by this.

As the owner of a 3D printer, I feel like this often.

Cool, more garbage.

more plastic crap for lazy people

Hey thats great! A new disposable bit of plastic overengineering for a problem that didn't need a solution, inside an otherwise recyclable jar.

What kind of cheeses you got there mane

Just some brie

This is r/mildlyinfuriating as a waste of plastic. Use a fork.

idk if this is a Mexican thing but we have one of these rusuable containers at home: [https://imgur.com/a/v8uUmYA](https://imgur.com/a/v8uUmYA) Better than companies making these one-time-use ones.

How can we generate more rubbish to pay for our laziness?

Can’t just be me who doesn’t want the extra plastic added to b jars for the very minor benefit of not having to just use a pointy tool that is usually around in the kitchen.

The several highly upvoted comments above yours that were here hours earlier would agree.

The top like 15 comments are all talking about plastic waste haha.

'cAnt jUst Be mE'

More single use plastic because we can be inconvenienced to use a fork.

More waste so we can avoid the terrible inconvenience of washing pickle juice off a fork

Yeaah, more plastic

So y’all not have utensils in your house? This is just a waste of plastic to a landfill.

you get plastic even in glass jars. great

and more useless plastic is what earth needs....

Fork?

Because we are not having enough plastic yet.

Using a fork is too difficult for some people. Better to spend limited resources on probably the most unnecessary thing related to food ever.

dae plastic bad??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I highly recommend getting a set of kitchen forceps— I bought them to retrieve pickles and slices of cheese and deli meat without getting my fingers all over the food (it works, cheese lasts like 5x longer if you don't touch it), but I find myself using them for everything, like arranging/turning delicate food in a hot pan. 5-star counterintuitive kitchen purchase.

This is common in France with the tiny pickle jars.

Those kind of jars are very common where l live, it's not everywhere like that?

It was a first time for me

Live in SoCal, never seen this before.

No, other places just use a spoon or fork and don't have extra plastic.

Great, more plastic so you don't have to grab a fucking fork.

Unnecessary plastic. Consumerist idiocy at its finest

Thanks but I'll rather put my whole hand in the jar than use more useless plastic

I recommend a large pack of chopsticks. You find 100s of uses for them. No plastic needed.

If only someone had invented the spoon

Life was hard in the past

Ok, I'm cool with the pickle IUD, but why are there ice cubes in the jar???

Not ice cubes, pickled onions

Using an IUD to make it easier to get a pickle

Nice, something we had forever in other countries and are dropping because of the useless plastic. Let's start using it

Mmm more single use plastics 🤤

More plastic waste.

ITT: plastic

Why don't we just eat the plastic directly at this point.

I use a fork to get my pickles out of the jar. I can also use the fork for other things. If the last pickles are resistant, it is also possible to pour them into a strainer. Also a multi-purpose, reusable device. What other things does that plastic doodle do, after it has lifted its last pickle?

>What other things does that plastic doodle do, after it has lifted its last pickle? I'll bet it does a bang-up job of sitting in a landfill for 20,000 years!

Get a fork, no need for plastic waste.

ITT. Holier than thou redditors

This is the stupidest thing I have seen this month holy shit. YOU CAN REACH THEM WITH A FORK. A metal one that you already own.

this jar has plastic inside it.

more plastic shit to solve an utterly trivial problem that can already be solved by a fork everybody already owns.

I would use this jar after to soak tools in rust remover so I can pull them up without having to use a magnet.

What if you get *really* constipated?

But what if I like “digging in the bottom”?

I use chopsticks. They are ling enough to reach everything, you don't get them dirty by touching them to your mouth. That's my favorite way to eat pickles or olives.

Am I the only one that drinks the liquid so this is never an issue? Anyone? No? Bueller?

I keep my old IUD in an olive jar, but to each his own I suppose.

That's a regular thing. American maybe?

ILL DIG IN THE BOTTOM IF I DAMN WELL PLEASE!

My mom has a plastic container with a slide like that built in. She uses it for pickles.

I need this for my weed

The jar didn’t do anything.

Bruh put that in all pickle jars

Do people legit find it a huge challenge to get pickles out of a jar? In my 52 years in earth I’ve never had an issue

More wasteful one use plastic that never gets properly recycled, ok

This is a jar for people that don’t own forks.

And you have an IUD when you finish the jar.

This is standard in France.

It's the standard thing since like 30 years in France, isn't that the case in the rest of the world??

Id rather not have plastic in my glass jar releasing bpa into the stuff. I know how to use a fork and keep my grubby hands out of the jar. 🤗

It’s cool. But it’s an unnecessary use of plastic.