Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while?

Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 210 points –

Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories.

So let's say you're in a situation where you lose all access to food, but you've got effectively unlimited access to pickles -- like, you're trapped inside a recently abandoned pickle warehouse.

Could you conceivably eat enough pickles to survive for a month? Two months? Or would your body just shut down from all the sodium and acid?

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Is this the follow up to the no poop question made months ago?

I feel like eating nothing but pickles is the polar opposite of the no poop question.

First the one, then the other.

Now that I think about it, it really works in both orders. Just went for 3 days without shitting? Eat a bunch of pickles and it'll flush your right out! Need to go 3 days without shitting? Eat a bunch of pickles the day before you start to completely void your system.

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