“A friend sometimes brings pickle juice for muscle cramps on long bike rides,” Marc Mercy emailed the Science Shop of our sister newspaper. The standard. “He is easily bothered by this and if he drinks the juice from a jar of sour pickles, that is immediately over. If he doesn’t have juice with him, he dares to go into a store, buy a jar, throw away the pickles and drink the juice. Is that in his head or really in his legs?”
