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06/19/2003 Archived Entry: "PICKLE RELISH"

PICKLE RELISH

Men who barely know how to find the kitchen and heat water for a hot dog should not be allowed refrigerator privileges. It should be a law, written or unwritten.

If they played all the games of a world series in one stadium and passed out an unending supply of free hot dogs to all the spectators, there is enough sweet pickle relish in MY refrigerator to cover them all from end to end. I'm sure of it. I just counted six jars of slightly-used relish. Plus, I have one of those half gallon jars of it in a refrigerator outside so that buying a small jar of relish for each hot dog would be unnecessary. The message got lost somewhere, as it always does. When I stop and think about my life, after 52 long years of contending with half-used jars of pickle relish, ketchup and mustard, I feel exhausticated. There's just not a whole lot you can do with the stuff.