Pickle juice shots are headed to convenience stores nationwide, and a neon-green pickle smoothie has appeared on a smoothie shop’s menu. Those pickle products are one option for National Pickle Day on Nov. 14, and a batch made at home is the other. That batch has its own rules, and the calendar is one of them.
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