Searching For The Pickle King

The Sporkful

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Arts

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

While the villages to the east and west have charming Main Streets, the small town of Greenlawn, sandwiched in between, has pickles. Dan stops by the annual Pickle Festival before diving into the story of Samuel Ballton, the formerly enslaved man who became Greenlawn’s Pickle King.

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0:00.0	Have you ever eaten a pickle on a stick?
0:05.4	Yes, just now.
0:07.2	Do you think it tastes better than other kinds of pickles?
0:09.0	Yes.
0:10.0	Why?
0:11.0	Because it's on the stick so you don't have to get all messy.
0:14.0	Because we're easier to eat and you don't have to get like juice all over your hands.
0:19.0	It's almost like there's that mentality of it's like it's a treat.
0:23.0	I don't know, it just enhances the pickle.
0:25.4	So you get the sourness and the bitter or the, you know, all the pickle flavor,
0:29.4	but you're eating it on a stick like it's a ice cream cone.
0:33.4	What do you think?
0:34.4	What do you think?
0:35.4	Pickle on a stick.
0:36.4	Am I right?
0:37.4	Yeah.
0:38.4	How good is it?
0:39.4	Right?
0:40.4	I don't understand what makes it better.
0:41.4	It's on a stick.
0:51.4	This is the Sporkful.
0:52.4	It's not for foodies.
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