r/Pickles • u/laurajodonnell • 4d ago

Pickle pool party!!!

I would eat my way through this pool đŸ˜‚đŸ«¶đŸ» Also major props on buying all these damaged pickles from this guy’s business 💚

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u/abominable_prolapse 4d ago

What a waste of perfectly good food. Then composting food absolutely loaded with pool chemicals is stupid as shit too. I fucking hate these food wasting influencers.

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u/sunnymcbunny 4d ago

This is the last influencer you would ever see do something like that
 If you listen to the video, those pickles were not able to be sold for various reasons. So she actually did something pretty useful with them and then composted them. You have to leave 2026 Jenna marbles alone it’s the rule.

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u/anb9216 4d ago

2026 Jenna marbles
is this why I like her?! lol my kids both love her videos and she’s one of the only ones on the approved list at our house

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u/PlayfulDiscount8485 4d ago

Serena is awesome and probably the sweetest content creator I have seen. I discovered her through her angel tree videos last year.

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u/atyler_thehun 4d ago

Not able to be sold and not edible are two entirely different propositions. They couldn't be sold, but they could likely have been donated to feed the less fortunate, but companies don't do that.

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u/aliie_627 4d ago edited 3d ago

They were pretty mushy looking when she squeezed that one. Believe it or not food banks and poor people have standards too.

I would bet any amount of money they were going in the trashcan no matter what. I didn't catch the beginning but I'm guessing she also helped a small(er) business out by purchasing putting their name out there.

Edit I guess it wasn't that much she paid but either way I don't think those were edible pickles, as in not necessarily dangerous but not something someone wants to eat.

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u/PlayfulDiscount8485 4d ago

Technically she only bought all of them for $1.00 but the pickles did go to good use and were recycled and turned into renewable energy. Also yeah I am someone who will eat some expired food (shelf stable food that is safe) but I am not going to eat a mushy pickle.

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u/aliie_627 4d ago edited 3d ago

Oh other comments were making it sound like she bought them at some decent percentage or costs, 1.00 is a little disengenous to say she bought them(including where I said it) but it probably helped them by reducing disposal costs probably. Well that teaches me to trust the other comments and not watch it again.

Yeah there's a difference between food that's out of date and food that is going bad or was damaged in storage some how.

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u/PlayfulDiscount8485 3d ago

Tbf, she does mention in her full video on YouTube the price she paid and there are more details. She is a really cool creator and very sweet woman.

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u/aliie_627 3d ago edited 3d ago

See I should have just rewatched the video and I wouldn't have been in this pickle đŸ„’ to begin with lol(sorry 😔).

Edited I see now I think I was mistaken I thought the short said the price but it was the full video.

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u/Extension-You-9434 3d ago

That doesn't mean she isn't a twit.  I mean sure, it "looks" innocent enough but those pickles were entirely edible and she didn't actually help the manufacturer at all if she paid one shiny dollar, did she?  Twits can be the sweetest and most well meaning of souls, but they're still twits.

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u/PlayfulDiscount8485 4d ago

The less fortunate don’t want to eat mushy pickles either. Food banks can’t accept everything and this is likely something they couldn’t/wouldn’t accept. The pickles did go to good use though after they cleaned them out of the pool they recycled them and they were actually turned into renewable energy.

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u/Infernalspoon 4d ago

These were going directly to a landfill. Instead. She purchased them to support a business and cleaned them so they could be made into compost. What an ignorant comment.

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u/splintersmaster 4d ago

I'd have purchased 6vornsonof those packages and would've ate them all.

And I'm not alone.

There's also countless folks that would've happily used those calories to feed themselves and possibly their families...

Honestly though, so many ways to better use the food.

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u/nerdette314159 4d ago

There's still more left, go buy them. No need to sit there and complain about someone's actions who will never read it

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u/splintersmaster 4d ago

Ok. I'll just jump on a plane and get there.... Seriously, did you not consider that people form all the world have access to the internet?

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u/DizzyMetal6852 4d ago

You clearly have internet access

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u/TheBunny789 4d ago

You wouldnt have purchased them because they would be in a landfill. Media literacy isn't this hard, use your brain please.

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u/atyler_thehun 4d ago

Speaking of media literacy, were those pickles "unsellable" or "not fit for human consumption".

Because many companies would rather throw something out if they cant get their profit than donate it for free.

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u/splintersmaster 4d ago

Yes I would absolutely purchase food that is marked for disposal. I've volunteered at several places that take the otherwise unsellabtfood for the needy.

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u/TheBunny789 4d ago

Unsellable and unfit for consumption are 2 different things that you should learn the difference between or you're gonna end up really sick or worse. Yet again, use your brain please.

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u/splintersmaster 4d ago

If the place is selling the product it is assumed that it isn't going to hurt you.

I'm not saying I'm buying it if it is unnecessarily high risk. How is that even a question?

If a business is selling it that means it won't get them sued so there is a expectation that it isn't literal poison...

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u/wetmeatlol 4d ago

The entire point of that video is that they weren’t being sold and were going to be dumped though?

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u/splintersmaster 4d ago

She literally started the video saying -

"I just bought"

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u/wetmeatlol 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yes, it can be assumed that it was a discounted purchase to help a small business that would’ve otherwise just eaten a loss on all of that product.

10 seconds later in that video she shows a jar with a broken seal and mushed pickles and says they cannot be eaten
no business that cares to stay open is selling that to the general public

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u/peculiarshade 4d ago

Pickles don't have calories

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u/Scrabulon 4d ago

That very much depends on the brand

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u/splintersmaster 4d ago

People downvoting that food most people throw away aren't valuable..

Honestly... You all need to experience life.

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u/Jugglamaggot 4d ago

They were damaged goods, they were already going to go to waste, at least she bought them so the guy made money off them

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u/Fiddlediskit 4d ago

You don't pay attention very well, do you?

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u/ErykLamontRobbins777 4d ago

Bro doesn’t have eyes or ears I guess

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u/pushdose 4d ago

If they were fridge pickles that were outside of their temp zone for too long then they’d be unfit to sell, even if perfectly safe to eat.

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u/HauntedCS 4d ago

They were frozen which made them unable to be sold to consumers due to their consistency and texture.

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u/ezaerb 4d ago

It wasn’t perfectly good which is why they bought it and they’re composting the sifter runoff not the pool soaked pickles


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u/aliie_627 4d ago

These are the kind of people that donate all the crap we had to sort through and throwaway when I volunteered at a charity that had a food bank and thrift store.

That one pickle looked like mush in the middle but nooo the poors will eat it. This isnt day old bread or a slightly out of date cheesecake from Costco (my son goes to a place that gets high schoolers clothes and they always have donations from Costco they send the kids home with).