sometime in the recent past Melba's Jammin' posted this:
> Mine got bupkes at the Fair this year.
>
> Are they the kind of pickle that needs several months before being
> edible? (I use the term loosely here.)
>
>
> I made my Fair entries in June with the first pickings and am wondering
> if two months in the syrup is enough time for them to acquire whatever
> taste they're supposed to acquire to please the judges.
>
> Should I be making next year's entries now so they can sit until next
> August? IMWTK.
>
> Thanks.
>
Wife says plenty 2 months is plenty of time - she thinks 2 weeks would be
plenty, but we don't enter fairs. Is my memory off, or is it somebody else
in the group that calls beets 'chunks of dirt?'

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