Pickled red.

• Position: FOOD - Kool-Aid red pickle recipe - Brief article

Imagine a dill pickle that s red when it should be green and sweet when it should be sour. Kool-Aid is the explanation, and kids from Texas to Mississippi are scarfing down these specially pickled pickles. No one knows exactly how the fad started, but the recipe is simple: Soak a gallon of pickles for about a week in double-strength red Kool-Aid (cherry, strawberry, or tropical fruit) sweetened with a pound of sugar. The pickles...