BrendanR wrote:Quick hijack but I was just discussing this pickle slushy with some coworkers last week.
Why does that come as absolutely no surprise to me?!
In another thread Rene G wrote:BrendanR wrote:Rene G wrote:I'm bringing my pickle juice already packed in plastic. It's simply not worth taking any chances.
Are you really bringing those? I love pickle juice. What I wouldn't give for packetized olive juice.
I have only two Pickle Pops left but I'll be more than happy to bring them along. It's not so easy finding people who appreciate them. Olive ice pops? Sure, I'll bring those too.
BrendanR wrote:I'm like this close to needing a towel for all this drool. I'm salivating like a lab dog at bell time here.
Cathy2 wrote:BrendanR wrote:Is the slushy sweetened at all?
Yes, they sweetened with a light hand allowing the picklish juice shine through.
Sonic's pickle juice slush is heavily sweetened, but its picklish acidity somewhat masks the high sugar content. According to
Sonic's nutritional information, a small pickle juice slush contains 48 grams of sugar, about 12 teaspoons. For comparison, a small Coke at Sonic has 29 grams and a small cherry limeade has 38.
Cathy2 wrote:I timidly ordered small, next time I will go for a larger size.
If you order Sonic’s largest pickle juice slush, which contains 148 grams of sugar, you can almost hit your week’s sugar quota with a single beverage! The
American Heart Association recommends women limit their daily added sugar intake to 25 grams.
Cathy2 wrote:Cathy2 wrote:The onion rings from Sonic are good to the last crumb. I've only had them twice, yet they stick out in my memory.
I wish ReneG had not revealed the underlying copycat method for making these:
According to this entry from CopyKat Recipes, Sonic's secret is dipping the rings in liquid vanilla ice milk (among other things) before frying. If that's true, it's probably the reason they stick out in your memory.
Last night along with a quite good pickle slushy, I ordered a small onion ring from Sonic. This particular batch of onion rings could have spent a little more time in the fryer, because they still had some less fully cooked onion crunch. However the coating really got my attention, because there was sweetness I had not recognized the first time. I didn't quite enjoy them as much as I had previously.
You can never go home again or something like that.
Since we're talking Sonic and sugar grams . . .
Sonic's onion rings are disturbingly sweet, really quite donut-like. Indeed, both a small order of Sonic onion rings and a Dunkin’ Donuts chocolate frosted donut with sprinkles contain 14 grams of sugar (granted, some of the sugar comes from the onions). This
old Chowhound thread on Sonic is mostly a discussion of the onion rings' sweetness.