🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve and Donald mentioned that the pickle glowed nearer one electrode
than the other and that it was not always the same side.  I would add
that during a given trial the glow can switch back and forth from side
to side.  My hypothesis is that the side which is the wettest with
brine is the one that glows.  When that side dries out or gets burned
away around the nail-electrode, the glow switches sides.  If you cut
open a pickle after the electrocution, you will observe that a tunnel
has been burned out around the nail.

I once poured the brine into a battery jar and electrocuted the brine.
The brine glowed nicely, but the fumes were quite offensive.

Donald, I have had students eat the burned/cooked pickle, but it smells
pretty bad and looks bad too -- even after just one run.  Low fat,
turkey franks are a different matter though -- best when cooked in
parallel.

Bon appetite!

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