Is $13 too much to pay for a fried pickle?

Possibly that fried, dressed pickle, had become their trendy item that's attracting customers,
so they need to meet their overhead and profit margin, from that item ordered?
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Sunkist said:
I've never had a fried pickle.. probably wouldn't want one.. but it seems a teeny bit expensive at $13.
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Me neither. Had to look it up cause I thought they just threw a pickle from a pot in a fryer just like that. We even threw bell pepper in the fryer as lazy students, just like that, but never a pickle.
 
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debodun said:
I have a gift card to a local restaurant. I was going to take my aunt out so I can use it since I've had it about a year and a half and it's between our birthdays. I was looking at an online menu. I haven't eaten out in so long I was a little surprised at how much prices have gone up. A dill pickle is $13???? That maybe be reasonable if the pickle is 18 inches long.

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@MACKTEXAS You and I are on the same page.

@debodun You wouldn't be paying just for the pickle. The restaurant/cafe has overheads - for example, energy costs, staff wages, cleaning, local, state and federal taxes. Perhaps a bank loan.
 
I love me some deep fried dill pickle chips, which typically cost $8 - $10 here. Some places use spears instead of chips, which are not nearly as good. An entire $13 pickle deep fried? Nope.
 
Reminds me of a time the son, brought home a new girlfriend from college. She wanted fried pickles, the son comes and mentions something about where to get them and the cost.

Ridiculous!! I tell him let's go in the kitchen, I will look up a recipe, so easy. So yes, I made fried dill pickles chips at home. I had all the ingredients, no big "dill", Apparently, not good enough for her. She was always asking for things that were expensive.

I found this quite funny as she was going to school on a grant for under privileged students. Son was going on money we had worked and saved over a lifetime. No student loans. Of course, he lived at home and had over an hour of driving time for classes.

This young lady never came out of his room to participate or even watch. Oh my!. she should not learn how to cook! Needless to say she disappeared
soon after. Son learned that beauty is no replacement for good sense and reality of the real world.


Deb, I would save the card for a special time just for you. Ask for the Aunt to come or pick her up and bring her to your home. You seem to me to a very good cook. Make a nice lunch for the two of you. There will be no stress and plenty of time to visit. No rushing, no disappointment on either side. You could even ask her favorite and make that. You can send her home with leftovers and cake. To me, that would be a Happy Birthday.

Don't laugh, but when the inlaws asked me about my birthday lunch, I always requested chili dogs and the fixings. They were enjoyed by the whole family sitting outside in the spring air.
 
hearlady said:
Almost every time I go out to eat I wish I'd eaten at home. 🙄
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That's where I've landed too. Ever since Covid I'd say and with other things increasing prices, while quality drops, and many not being able to find good help, due to many reasons causing it all, I'm disappointed just about every time I do. That goes for takeout or drive thrus as well. Across the board, upscale, fast food, any of it.

I had a couple of places left that never disappoint and one of them just HUGELY disappointed me, the place I used to crave, so now that's off my list. I rarely indulge in going out, ordering in, takeout, etc. and when I do and spend that price and am disappointed...?

I can cook better than what I'm getting.

However, that's getting to be something one has to watch as well, as ingredients many are not quality any longer.

Still though, I know how to add flavor to things, even if they are flavorless to begin with.

I also enjoy cooking these days, most of the time. I don't do it on demand and that makes a huge difference in whether one enjoys it lol.

My last two times out or ordering were huge disappointments. It had been awhile before that since I had done it, but don't recall them being spectacular either. An occasional fast food drive thru? That's really gone way down the tubes. At least my experiences have been.

There's so many problems these days. They season nothing. Prices are up. Quality is down. Profits are down. So they increase prices, have to pay employees more and try to fix things in that way and of course that isn't going to work....

But I'm getting carried away and all of those things are a subject of their own.

To the dill pickle thing, I'm still not a dill pickle fan but I've really gotten to where I enjoy using dill as a dried herb in pasta salads and such. I can take dill pickles in some forms and in moderation...

Not really a vinegar or pickled kind of person. I don't like much of pickled anything lol. But if it is the right balance with something else, then I like it. Not overloaded.

I like a good Asian sauce with the right vinegar and sweet and salty, etc.

Fried dill pickle slices is all I've ever seen and the breading and salty bit adds a different component so they're not bad. A whole pickle? Forget it lol. If that's what it is.

I've kind of strayed. Sorry. Early morning wanderings as the coffee kicks in.
 
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