Magnifeye fishing hook threader - video

[Frank S]

Ah, but that's the gimmick -- they start out in the jar/can already (see here for the pickles), and you recycle them once you're done. There are also 'aftermarket' chip lifters, but they don't need any articulation points as there's enough extra space in the can to just slide it past the chips and turn it 90°. They're conveniently sized such that you can unhook it from the edge and put the lid back on for storage.

I liked my idea better could be used in types of food stuffs not just a throwaway thing once the jar of pickles was empty.
As for the pringles the latest is to combine several artificial flavors together and make believe you have created a new flavor.
I much prefer to simply dip my traditional original flavored ships of any brand in my hot sauce and be done with it.

[Toolmaker51]

Pickles?
Slender or small necked jar?
Fork or slotted spoon.
Have a drawer full.

And decent chips aren't in a can.

[Frank S]

My wife gets aggravated at me sometimes the way I will load the cart but we go to teh grocery store so infrequently that by the time we reach the check out counter I would have fashioned side extensions out of cartons and bags of produce would be hanging from the handle and any other part I could tie a bag I always carry a supply of thermal bags with us for the frozen and cold items Get to the conveyor and begin arranging items like I would want them placed in the bags One time A checker lady exclaimed OH' MY' Gawd' then called for 2 more guys to help bag. AS I unload our cart the wife is directing them how to place the bags in the waiting carts plural 3 to be exact. Men while I am also carrying on a running conversation with the young checker who simply cannot believe these 2 senior citizens are not buying groceries for a restaurant of something. or planning a huge party. I finally get it though her head that we live over 70 miles from this particular grocery store and only drive to this town once every several months. That I had noticed several items we were running low on were on sale and these happened to be items that were way more expensive at the little local grocery we frequent near where we live.
OK so I totally blew our food budget for the next 3 months but it would be 6 months to a year before we would need some of the stuff. I do things like that once in a while but the flip side is if we had a zombie Apocalypse we could feed ourselves and the zombies for a very long time.

There is never not something to make a few meals out of in our house

[PJs]

Whaaat? Kimchi flavored Pringles...No emoji for what just happened...reverse Pavlov. Besides who only eats a few Pringles and saves the rest¿ I'm with TM51...real chips don't come in a can. Baked - potato mash, but salty...kimchi...no.

Pickle Plunger-upper, interesting and if a good one was developed it would be as Frank suggests. Fork works for me...that's why they call them Pickle forks.

[Jon]

The Pringles one still makes more sense to me, simply because of snack consumption volume. Chip retrieval occurs, what, 20 or 30 times per snacking episode? Hokey as it looks, I guess a dedicated tool isn't absurd here. And chips are delicate. And you can't really spear a chip.

The pickle thing is too weird. I like pickles. But (especially unsliced mini cucumber pickles) - pickles are a snack that people generally consume maybe 1-3 per episode? And they're durable too; you can fish around for a pickle in a jar without damaging anything.

[PJs]

The Pringles one still makes more sense to me, simply because of snack consumption volume. Chip retrieval occurs, what, 20 or 30 times per snacking episode? Hokey as it looks, I guess a dedicated tool isn't absurd here. And chips are delicate. And you can't really spear a chip.

The pickle thing is too weird. I like pickles. But (especially unsliced mini cucumber pickles) - pickles are a snack that people generally consume maybe 1-3 per episode? And they're durable too; you can fish around for a pickle in a jar without damaging anything.

Understand about snack consumption volume...but hey I have to say the grand kids got me going on Goldfish...again. We get a bag at the grocery store once in a while (for Home use) and one for the grand kids. The home one lasts about 3 sittings over a movie or two. So my wife has been bugging me to just get the ginormous milk carton of them when we go to the store...It's Cheaper...Right! But I keep telling her, new pants cost a lot more and I have an agreement thing with my brother that if either one of us gets overhang...we put us out of our misery.

Now what we need is Grocers that don't crush the chips/cracker in a bag/box (Hence Pringles) and put them on the shelf packed so tight you have to crush more to get them out! I made a packer go get me a new bag after he squashed them in the bag he was packing after I hand picked one that wasn't crushed...actually got cheers from someone in line. Other concerns for the future is Packing your own grocery's when you by $200 worth or Grappling with the ghoulish "Self Checkout"...gas is bad enough. Let's see. I buy/bring my own bags, pay exorbitant prices for Dairy and meat, then load it on a conveyor to short not to stack them up and if by chance the checker isn't packing and the packers MIA as usual, the lines around the corner, - Oh I'll pack my $$$ own for you...how's that! At least the cold stuff will go in the cold bag...Getting to be an old fart I think. Another new tool/storage device would be the Bag Storage system so they don't get strewn all over the car willy nilly waiting for the spoils of wintertime war to infiltrate the food transport mechanisms.

As for the pickles device, I still don't see how you get it in the jar without removing the pickles first, other than the Peter Piper which appears to come with it. Me, I'm a Vlasic Kosher fan...one or two and I'm good for the day....baby sweets sometime scratch an itch once in a while also. I get it about fishing around and being able to lick the fingers after retrieval especially if a fork isn't readily available...or in a hurry. Haven't found pickles to match the ones from the "General Store" (90 years old) where my Gpa used to live in Illinois, but there was a Deli chain called Perry's around here that used to make their own, almost as good and a requisite accompaniment to their knock out homemade pastrami sandwich.

Oops, I spewed again...

[Frank S]

A pringles jack may even have some after life use

[JTG]

I found some better images for the pickle/cornichon lifters. Looks like Amora, Maille, and Peter Piper's brands each have/had their own variations.

[Frank S]

Finger food is meant to be just that, not meant to be eaten with utensils which would include finger cots. One of the biggest reasons why people are always getting sick in today's time is they keep their hands too sterile I can look at a guys hands and pretty much tell how many visits to the Dr he does each year by how sterile clean they look after he has been working on something. I've seen technicians, you can't call them mechanics any more because they go through a dozen pairs surgical gloves every-time they do anything under the hood of a vehicle. most regularly visit the pharmacy or a DR for any little thing.
There is a discussion going on on another web site about people getting sick from eating what ever.
My comment was that most of the people alive today would wind up in the ER or under observation of the CDC if they were to eat the things that was considered good food bought from a store 100 years ago. At one time humans could eat things that would make a vulture ill without ever worrying about getting sick them selves. But in our so called advancement we had lost most if not all of our tolerance to things like that. In my opinion a lot of it is because we try to stay too clean.
I had an uncle who had lived up in the remote mountains all of his life, at the age of 80 he had never been to a DR. One of his brother's children finally talked him into coming to live with them for a while since he was in their view getting too old to take care of himself. A short time later he became ill from some stomach infection pretty soon he was making weekly visits to the DR. After about 2 years of this he decided he had had enough and if he was going to die it was going to be in his own home up in the mountains, He did pass away eventually 10 years later from wounds encountered fighting some animal over a fresh kill he had made but the wounds took nearly 6 months to get the better of him.

[Jon]

This is starting to make more sense when I consider something like pickle slices or olives. Similar generic Tupperware item: