In our recent trip to NYC, we did something crazy.

It started with some jumbo as heck deli pickles...

Then we added our lust of pickle backs into the equation. if you're not familiar with what a pickle back is..  it's a shot of bourbon, immediately followed by a shot of pickle juice. It's delightful, and you should try it, even if you don't like pickle juice. It works.. trust me.

So how do you level up the pickle back?

do the shots out of pickles. I chopped the ends off, then used a knife and a spoon to whittle the dang thing into a shot glass.

Then of course..

Filled them with bourbon.

down the hatch!

Ok, so how did it go ?

ehhhh  It was a great novelty, but I would stick to doing the shot of pickle juice if you want the pickle back experience. It was great to shoot the whiskey, and take a nibble of the pickle, fill it up again and try to eat the whole piece at once...  but the nice satisfaction of the standard pickle back experience was lost. But we DID get some good bragging rights to say that we did shots out of NYC pickles.

Cheers!