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Maury is an asshole. What if something traumatic happened to her involving pickles? You can't just throw pickles at the girl and expect her to magically feel better. Fuck you Maury.
I showed this to my roommate tonight but the video stopped loading halfway through. We were dying to know - WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE IN THE RESTAURANT ORDERS PICKLES??!
The armchair Freudian in my want to say that sometimes a pickle is not just a pickle. She's reacting like she was sexually abused at a very young age and was either actually assaulted with a pickle or transposed male genitals to a general symbology of pickles.
This happens with a lot of common phallic objects - carrots, cucumbers, pickles, pencils or pens, more. A common phobia manifestation would be an irrational fear of having things broken off inside of them, or irrational fear of things like needles or medical probes, or specific foods, particularly when assualted by them or when they're phallic in nature.
However, the irrationally snarky internet asshole in me makes me want to post the following image:
SassHat, you can't just reload the page? I've never had that happen on youtube. Anyway, if someone orders a pickle she says that they're out of them, she won't get it for them. "Too bad" if they order one, she says. The drama doesn't come until later when the show's staff bring out a couple of large platters of pickles and she bolts off the stage in a hurry, losing her shoes as she goes. Poor girl.