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"On a recent trip to the NYC cheese haven Murray&amp;#039;s Cheese Shop I succumbed to a big, shiny jar of McClure&amp;#039;s Pickles. I&amp;#039;m not exactly sure what came over me considering the $11.99 price tag, but I could tell these were going to be special. Hand-packed in Brooklyn and Detroit and made from an old family recipe these were not your average spears. The McClure cukes were crunchy, salty, spicy, garlicky perfection. I would have drunk the brine had I not been afraid of the inevitable heartburn. But, delicious as they were, at such a high cost I wasn&amp;#039;t completely convinced. Thankfully, my dad showed me another way. Last weekend while visiting my parents in Connecticut, I noticed a couple of old coffee jars sitting in the back of the fridge filled with bright green little spears. Armed with a basic recipe from his friend Gail that included nothing more than water, white vinegar, garlic, dill, salt, and sugar, Dad had been pickling up a storm. And, they were fantastic \u2013 light, simple, and practically refreshing. He explained that they were a snap to make and probably cost less than 5 bucks. Homemade pickles never sounded so fabulous! Anyone could do it.  No sooner had we devoured the contents of one jar was Dad slicing up Kirbys and stuffing them back in the old brine \u2013 just like that we had more pickles for the next day. Perhaps they should change the old idiom from &amp;quot;easy as pie&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;easy as pickles!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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