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Turkey's magical hangover cure
In an unassuming storefront tucked away on a bustling Istanbul street, an older man was assembling a vividly colourful package of pickles. Drawing from buckets of cauliflower, beetroot, plums and peppers, he mixed them into a plump bundle inside a sturdy, clear plastic bag and sealed them in a pool of their own juices.
Adem Altun, 64, is a third-generation pickle man who has practiced his craft since he was a boy. He operates the original location of Pelit Turşuları in Istanbul’s Kurtuluş neighbourhood, with branches in different pockets of the city. It’s one of a number of classic pickle shops in the city that adhere to decades-old techniques passed down from generation to generation.
“For us, a meal without pickles is not complete. There are pickles on every table. Sometimes this drops in the summer because pickles prefer the cold,” Altun said.
But I wasn’t there to learn about pickles, or to pick up an assorted mix for the dinner table. I’d come to his shop – conveniently located a few blocks away from my apartment – for a different purpose: I’d drunk a little too much the previous night, and a glass of pickle juice is famed as a quick, tasty and natural cure for even the fiercest of headaches.
“In terms of minerals it is very rich,” Altun said, offering an explanation as he served me a glass.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:47AM (1 child)
FTFY
Let me guess, Runaway, you are Judge Buford J. Mulefucker [youtube.com] in the original film? I object that you interrupted me while I was watching "Ow, My Bawls!". Judge should be, all like, Muslins is bad and terrorist shit. Carry on, oh smartest person left on the planet as the result of a failed military experiment!
[Somehow, in the back of my mind, I think that Runaway may have been involved in something more like "Jacob's Ladder" [imdb.com], especially since he did mention exposure to the Hypno-Toad, and had dropped enough details for anyone to track him back from Texarkana. Do you know what happened after your unit was rotated out to the real world, Runaway? Can you remember? There is a Black Mirror episode [wikipedia.org], which you should not watch, about precisely this. The title comes from a post-WWII study by S.L.A. Marshall [wikipedia.org], who discovered that most men in combat did not take aim at the enemy, because, you know, killing is wrong. So during the Vietnam conflict, they discovered that while soldiers would not kill, even to save their own lives, they would kill to save their buddies. Thus small unit fire-squad cohesion was built into US Army doctrine. You might have missed this, being out of actual combat and messing about on ships. But on the other hand, Runaway could have been one of the early experimental subjects, who were primed with a virus, or operant conditioning, to accept Fox News indoctrination. Is it a coincidence that Fox News has been broadcast on US Military channels for the past decade or more? So, I am suggesting a bit more sympathy for Runaway1926. He may be a casualty of the great psycho-war of the Sixties, when Men Stared at Goats. [imdb.com] Or, Runaway is just a ignorant Polack Hillbilly Redneck (triple threat!). I leave it to Ockham's Razor to decide. Or, Russians. ]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:58PM
Oh, thanks for the reminder.
I'm supposed to go down to the dungeon and feed {nick} this week. Do you think I should feed him early in the week, or later in the week?