Here are some very interesting facts about...pickles!!!!!

1. 1.Cleopatra claimed pickles made her beautiful. (We guess it had more to do with her genes.)
   

2. 2.Not everyone likes sweet pickles. In America, dill pickles are twice as popular as the sweet variety.
   

3. 3.If it weren’t for pickles, Christopher Columbus might never haver “discovered” Amerca. In his famous 1492 voyage, Columbus rationed pickles to his sailors to keep them from getting scurvy.
   

 

4. 4.North Americans prefer pickles with warts. Europeans prefer wartless pickles
   

5. 5.International Pickle Week is one of the country's longest running food promotions --it's been observed for more than 50 years. IPW actually runs for 10 days during the last two weeks of May.