See ya in hell, vegetables! It’s National Pickle Day! Established in 1949 by the Pickle Packers Association (now Pickle Packers International), the holiday has been celebrated with relish for the past seventy years.
We’re salting away our vegetables today with this ca. 1930s pamphlet from the Worcester Salt Company, a salt supplier founded in Warsaw, New York in 1894. In the decade prior to this pickle pamphlet’s publication, the company’s customers were rewarded for their brand loyalty with tokens proclaiming them to be part of Worcester’s "Don't Worry Club", a popular commercialization of the Don’t Worry Movement inspired by the 1890s writings of Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward (1835–1902).
This pamphlet part of our Carol Litchfield Collection on the History of Salt (Accession 2012.219). You can find the fully digitized version, which has recipes for kosher pickles, dill pickles, pickled beets, sour pickles, pickled corn, pickled dandelion greens, pickled turnip tops, salted green beans, and solutions to all your pickle troubles (so long as those troubles are soft pickles, slippery pickles, shriveled pickles, hollow pickles, hard water, or scum) online in our Digital Archive now. Just click here! You’ll have to find a suitable substitute for Worcester Salt, though, as the company was purchased by Morton Salt in 1949.