Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d give it 3 or 4 days, if literally all you have is pickles. All that salt and vinegar will dehydrate you pretty damn good, despite all the liquid you’re ostensibly consuming.
Even if you had fresh water present as well, I think you’d wind up with one hell of a stomachache by day 2 or 3.
skydivekingair@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah they said only pickles, and even with the liquid in the pickles it’s so briny that unless they are also drinking additional water their kidneys would keep using more water the same way drinking salt water would cause. I took the question as only pickles and that, as you said, would only last until dehydration sets in. Now if they have unlimited fresh water I’d say until malnutrition so maybe a few weeks, a few horrible weeks. Just playing along and speculating, I am not a MD.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I think I’d rather spend my time seeing if I could use the pickle juice to corrode some component of the place that’s keeping me locked in. Fuck all that noise.
I’d take, like, one or two jars of pickles with me when I left, though.