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are you conserving brine to drink (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not trying to judge, just trying to understand where we are in the spectrum of human behavior - when you eat a jar of pickles or olives or whatever, what do you do with the brine? Do you dump it, use it for something else, or drink it?

I know someone who saves it to drink it later. He is my husband. Honestly, even after 20 years together, I didn't realize this about him. I thought the stockpile in the door was just a collection of forgotten empty jars, and I've been dumping them as such.

Which is it:

I'm a terrible wasteful sinner?
He's a freak?
Neither/Both, there's a special middle ground?

No judgement or emotional attachment here, he can have an entire shelf of the fridge for brine jars, idgaf. It just never occurred to me to that I should consider stockpiling brine.

Are you stockpiling brine? What do you do with it? "I'll drink some with breakfast tomorrow," is a perfectly acceptable answer. Just curious if yours is different.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i'm picturing these jars of olives and pickles. how quickly are they eaten?

i suspect they linger a while, nearly empty but with a stray kalamata or gherkin or two. slowly drained of brine until you probably quite reasonably decide it's been there long enough and toss it.

he's never complained but also you've never noticed him drinking pickle juice for 20 years. until now? did he take a swig from the jar or pour out a glass?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

you probably quite reasonably decide it's been there long enough and toss it.

THANK YOU 😂

To clarify - I've seen him take occasional sips from the jar; I knew he liked the brine. I didn't know he liked it so much that he was sad when I dumped it out.

You're on the right track with the single olive/pickle left theory of what was happening. There would frequently be a jar with one or even none, so I would put it on the list, add the stray to some snack for him or our kid, and dump the jar.

He didn't complain because he is very much an "out of sight, out of mind" kinda guy and not very complain-y in general. He opened the fridge, didn't find his brine, assumed he either drank it all and forgot or someone else tossed it, and he moved on with his life.

The mental image of him pouring himself a nice, tall glass of olive brine and putting a drink umbrella on it is just absolutely sending me, thank you.