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5 Surprising Pickle Facts From My Visit to The Pickle Fetish Company 🥒

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  5 Pickle Facts You Probably Didn’t Know 🥒 Apparently I’ve fallen pretty deep into the pickle world lately. 😂 After visiting The Pickle Fetish Company in downtown Lincolnton, North Carolina , I realized there is a LOT more to pickles than a jar sitting next to the sandwiches in your refrigerator. This place has more than 100 pickle flavors, pickle candy, dill pickle marshmallows, pickle fudge, plush pickles, pickle earrings and an entire museum filled with pickle history and memorabilia. I even came across what they call a haunted pickle , which was definitely not something I expected to see that day. So after seeing all of that, I started wondering just how much I actually knew about pickles. Turns out, not much. Here are five pickle facts I found pretty interesting. 1. People have been pickling food for thousands of years Pickles are definitely not a new obsession. Food historians trace pickling back to ancient Mesopotamia around 2400 B.C. People figured out that salt an...

Inside Hickory Antiques Mall, Where Yesterday Is Still for Sale

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A nearly 40 year Hickory institution holds everything from vintage Coca Cola and Playboy magazines to Pokémon, Barbies and the uncomfortable realization that your childhood is now collectible. HICKORY, N.C. — The first surprise at Hickory Antiques Mall is how little the building gives away from the outside. You walk through the front door expecting an antique store. Then you keep walking. And walking. There are Tiffany style lamps near the entrance, collectible Barbies, furniture, records, old advertising, clothing, glassware and enough miscellaneous pieces of American life to make any attempt at seeing everything fairly hopeless. By the end of our visit, closing time was approaching and we still had entire sections left unexplored. “This place is like never ending,” CoreniaBug said while walking through the mall. She wasn’t exaggerating much. That is part of what makes Hickory Antiques Mall interesting. This is not a carefully arranged museum where someone has already decided...