Reliably cheap NYC pickles being monetized and scrubbed up for influencers — in these trendiest, briny cocktails
NY Post
Bartenders across the Big Apple have gotten themselves in a pickle.
It used to be that NYC’s crunchy and sour snack was a cheap, old-school deli staple, served as part of a mouthwatering sandwich.
These days, though, the humble pickle has been elevated to the latest trendy ingredient.
Just ask Selena Gomez, who recently turned 33 with a pickle birthday cake, or peruse recent reports that pickle juice has a myriad of health virtues, from probiotic benefits to blood sugar stabilization.
It’s all marinated into the current state of pickle-gentrification.
While Pickleback shots (that is, pickle juice served alongside strong whiskey) have been a dive bar favorite for a decade now, pickle juice itself has started to flow into cocktails with mixologists across the city workin’ their gherkins into everything from martinis to spritzes.
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