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We Americans owe our contemporary epoch not just to the founding fathers and the Constitution but also, believe it or not, to the pickle. In 1492, before weighing anchor for the New World, Columbus had his ships provisioned with barrels of pickles—which, packed with vitamin C, kept his crew from contracting scurvy. They made it and so have we.
We kept eating pickles, too. The commodity people tell us that close to 70 percent of households consume pickles: 9 pounds per person, per year.
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