kool aid in the packets has no sugar added, you add sugar to sweeten it. then the containers of kool aid have all the sugar added, that all you add is water to make the drink. your recipe seems to call for the packet of drink mix).

i can't imagine cherry flavored pickles.

maryanne

I think kool-aid comes both presweetened and without sugar (you add the sugar). This recipe wants the kool-aid without sugar already added.

Dill and sugar seems the odd combo to me....tell us how they turn out.

A friend of mine is making them as we speak.

Gross gross gross gross gross.

Sweet dill pickles aren't at all bad. My Mom makes something called "idiot pickles" which takes regular dills and makes sweet dills out of them.

But Cherry Blast flavored (and colored) pickles? No frigging way.

San, you slept through the Today Show this morning :)
They just had your Kool Aid pickles on the Today's Kitchen segment, along with spam sushi, fried pickles with Creole seasoning, fried cheese curds and Frito chili in the bag!
BTW the Kool Aid pickles didn't get a great response from the tasters but the fried pickles did and also the Frito chili!

Here is a link that might be useful: Today Show Recipes

Missed the today show, but the Frito pie sounds ok. Doesn't Alexa have a similar recipe for the frito's? I'd definitely pass on the cherry koolaid pickles. Who thinks of these things, LOL? Sounds like something that would be in the Gross Grub cookbook

How'd they turn out, San?

Should have added to my previous post.....to each his own ...BUT

nobody better using my dills for this!!! LOL

LOL, I love Gross Grub. I have the second one, too, Gross Goodies, but it's not as good.

I tried a deep fried dill once...it really wasn't bad. But I don't know about the kool-aid....euw.

The Fritos pie is called a Pepperbelly here...a staple at our county fair. The 4Hers make a fortune off them. Fritos, chili, onions, cheese, and sour cream and chopped tomatoes if you get there before they run out of supplies. They stopped using the individual packages, though... it's not quite as much fun to eat them out of a french fry boat.

I posted about these a while back and Annie said she was going to try them. When I saw the show I wondered if she ever did. The recipes that I have heard for them only discards half of the pickle juice and then adds the kool-aid. Any flavor will do, but red flavors seem to be the favorite.

The tamale place they featured on the show (Doe's Eat Place) makes really good tamales. The tamales in the Delta are different than tamales served everywhere else, but they are very good. Until I went to Mexico as a teenager, I thought that was how tamales were supposed to be cooked.

Here is a link that might be useful: kool-aid pickles

If it was lemonade flavored kool aid I could fathom it. But cherry? Perhaps use cherry kool aid and pickled jalepeno slices?
Red kool aid scares me in any form.

I've heard of this and apparently is very popular with teenagers??? Do you think that has a connection with the ingestion of perhaps... another substance???? Maueen

We have the frito chili thing around here but they call it walking tacos. They have them at community festivals and at a lot of the ball game concession stands.

Stacie

thanx for answering my question about the sugar. interesting bit of discussion on this "food product". and chase--i can promise you and everyone else that ever sent me a home-made goodie, it was treated with MUCH more respect than what you see in this thread! and i have to say, the idea of the frito chili/pepperbelly dish has caught my attention too! has middle age turned me into a kid or what???

be that as it may, we just ate the first koolickle a little bit ago. yesterday morning i took 1/2 the pickles out of a jar of commercially prepared dills and let them drain while i made a batch of cherry-flavored kool aid. mixed the two together and refrigerated until this afternoon. by then, everything except the skins of the cukes had turned a weird shade of red--think of a maraschino cherry. first munch seemed very sweet, as did the second one. until you got close to the skin of the cuke, it tasted VERY much like a sweet pickle. it was only in that last little bit of the cuke did you get any hint of the dill pickle that it started out to be. but believe it or not, it was sort of tasty in it's own odd little way. and i'll bet a group of kids would think they were fun in some, screaming red fashion! if it's a slow day at camp carol, perhaps your kids might enjoy "making" sweet pickles!

and just as sort of a post script... i was one of those weird kids who liked sauteed chicken livers wrapped in bacon. a friend of mine made something similar and said she wanted me to eat pickled watermelon rind, wrapped in bacon and broiled. i was SURE they'd be awful but they were actually quite tasty! do i have to turn in my forum membership to the food police yet?

Kids at camp will eat mostly anything, San. I will try making koolickles next year, LOL! The kid ate an "eclair" cake made with vanilla pudding, chocolate frosting and saltine crackers, it was a big hit, so if a cake made with saltines works, then I bet red pickles and kool-aid would go over really well, LOL!

Katie, I didn't know there was a second book. Gross Grub was fun! We got it at a book fair when my kids were small.

I know somebody who tried these made with lime kool aid, and said they reminded her of those really tangy sweet pickles that sort of smell like feet, only less footy ROFLMAO!

Did you know Doritos can be used as firestarter?

Well,, the pickles sound gross, but San, I also loved (and still do) chicken breasts with bacon, and I also add a water chestnut. Yum.
Sherry

I saw Alton's Koolickle show tonight. He said to purchase unsweetened Kool-aid. Made a batch tonight to give it a try.....

The deep fried pickles sounded more promising. I'll have to try that next...