I was tasting the pickles I have fermenting in the crock, and my 16 year old seriously did not know that pickles were made from cucumbers.I have given up on kids nowadays. If I had as much information literally at the ends of my fingertips like they have? They sure as heck can remember how to get through a level in a video game by heart, or can follow a you tube channel with people jumping off buildings onto cacti or kicking each other in the nuts or settingthemselves on fire, but they do not know where pickles come from.