Pickle Backs-Live and Learn

Tuesday night was The Pickle Club-hosted Pickle Party at Destination Bar where they serve fried pickles and the increasingly popular Pickle Back - a shot of whiskey with a pickle juice chaser. When the bartender set these up I was hoping the pickle juice was going in the larger glass but as you can see from my hand model, who wishes to remain anonymous, that was not the case.

In order to maintain my false identity as a "journalist", I felt it necessary to try the Pickle Back. Do I know what whiskey tastes like? Ugh...yeah. Do I know what pickle juice tastes like? Um, YEAH. But what happens when one follows the other? MAGIC, very dangerous magic!



It was my educated guess that the pickle juice Destination Bar used as the chaser was from a variety of Ricks Picks, either Spears of Influence or Kool Gherks, but I honestly don't know. I ALSO don't know what happened the rest of the night, besides a quick photo with my pickle pal Jennifer and a few more Buds. Thank you Pickle Backs. Live and Learn.

If you can handle your whiskey I highly recommend the Pickle Back, but you see, I CAN'T and I already knew this but I did it anyway,(duty calls!) on an empty stomach to boot. So what's the moral of this story? Well, obviously it's THIS: if you add pickle juice to any number of vices, I'm gonna have to do it.

Pass the syringe.