TIL adding a splash of pickle juice to my tuna salad actually works

My grandma in Dayton did this for years and I always figured it was just a weird old habit, but last Tuesday I was out of lemon and tried it, and it fixed the whole bowl. What's the strangest pantry swap that turned out to be real for you?

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wendy62822d ago

The part about being out of lemon and trying it as a fix is what gets me. Was it a "well, this is all I have" moment or did you already figure it would work because of your grandma? I'm curious if the pickle juice changed the taste in a way you didn't expect, or if it just did the same job the lemon would have done. And did you use the juice from a dill pickle or a sweet one? That seems like it could go really wrong depending on which jar you grabbed.

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