CatParty said:
...and my current favorite drinks use pickle brine (picklebacks and pickle martinis)
I love cocktails with dill pickle brine, whenever I'm at a place that make's em. The best Bloody Mary I've had was the
"Monster Mary" at Haute Dish in Minneapolis, which had lots of dill & garlic in it, a dill pickle spear on a long skewer with olives, grilled peppers, a pickled tomato, and a chunk for salami at the top. Everything was good, but the pickle brine and spear is what set it apart another
"Bloody Mary with stuff on top of it."
One of the few non-shitty traits or predilections I inherited from my pencildick father, is a taste for pickled veggies. I love almost all kinds of Japanese tsukemono, Korean kimchee, deli-style dill pickles, those nuclear green dill hamburger slices, pickled tomatoes, and pickled cauliflower. I'd be lying if I said I don't take a few shots of brine, every so often, as well. Fried pickle chips are also pretty effin' awesome.
In regards to Chris' related phobia of dicks, I seem to also like most food shaped like a penis. I think it was the movie
Superbad, which posits that most of the best food in the world is shaped like a dick. I'd be lying if the shape wasn't at least part of what I enjoy, because it's amusing to see who freaks out and who cheers when I deepthroat a Sheboygan bratwurst.