Pickle Cake Anyone?

 

have a piece of pickle cake

     It's the latest fad in birthday cakes. And it's a filling snack after a rousing game of PickleBall.

Mmmmmm pickles.

For Birthday Girl Alayna, there’s no better way better way to celebrate yet another year chalked up

 on the battered old blackboard of life than by trying new things, searching out new challenges, stretching her

 capabilities to the breaking point.  In short, this means playing the aforementioned PickleBall.  

JP offers up this brief explanation for the uninitiated:

The game involves 2 paddles and 1 pickle.  Naturally, not just any pickle will do.  It has to be a large

 dill pickle, preferably Polish, very sour and soaked in brine for exactly 139 days, so as to create just the

 right degree of firmness. The paddles are also unique to the game.  Ping pong paddles are too small and

 racquetball paddles are too large.  Choose graphite if you have the option.  Most people seem to like

 the mustard colored ones, but this could be no more than a fad, though pickles do go with

 mustard in certain sandwiches.

 

at the ready

  Two teams of two pickleballers (aka, players) each, tools of the trade firmly in hand, lob a

pickle back and forth over a small net, volleying much like in ping pong, badminton, and tennis.

The first team to reach 11 pickles wins (though you must win by 2 pickles).       

pickle volley

 In tennis, you have ground strokes.  In pickleball, you have dill chips.  A great shot is called a relish,

while a net serve is referred to as a ‘strainer.’  In tennis, you occasionally rush the net.  In pickleball,

 you stay near the net, but must remain back three feet or you are ‘in the kitchen.’

  tap paddles

  Crazy bounces are the norm, and when all is said and done, a coin is flipped to see who gets to eat the pickle,

usually dipped in hollandaise type sauce. Recently, one player had a severe reaction to the sauce because of

his partial plate, which had been fashioned from steel.  His dentist later recommended replacing it with a chrome

upper since there is no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

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So far, Alayna has proven to be quite adept at her new sport, and the experience has

 proven to be quite rejuvenating as well, making it just the thing to recapture that lost youth. 

All the Best on your Big Day Alayna and Happy Pickleballing!

 

JP and your HackFester Editorial Staff. 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAYNA!

 

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