{"id":3394,"date":"2025-09-08T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/parkway-delis-pickle-bar-kind-of-sucks-marc-elrich-says\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:27:02","slug":"parkway-delis-pickle-bar-kind-of-sucks-marc-elrich-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/parkway-delis-pickle-bar-kind-of-sucks-marc-elrich-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkway Deli’s Pickle Bar ‘Kind of Sucks’ Marc Elrich Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SILVER SPRING, MD – Speaking at a District 18 Breakfast Club meeting at Parkway Deli Monday morning, County Executive Marc Elrich said the restaurant’s beloved free pickle bar “actually kind of sucks” and will be introducing legislation to change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also<\/em> Affordable housing program \u2018kind of sucks,\u2019 Elrich says<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from Bethesda Today<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They say the pickle bar is ‘free’ but really, you have to spend $15 on a reuben or an omelette to get the free pickles,” Elrich told the group with deli mustard on his half-tucked shirt. “No restauranteur is going to make pickles affordable in and of their own accord. The only way to get free pickles is leverage!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elrich said the deli’s long-time pickle bar serves only one group of people: those who make between 65% to 75% the area median income and “makes it very hard for lower income folks to eat a starter in this county.” Elrich then proposed legislation requiring truly free pickle bars throughout the county – even for non-paying customers – or no pickles for anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re rich enough to get lox on your bagel, you shouldn\u2019t be hoarding free pickles too,\u201d Elrich added, before shoving a fistful of half-sours into his I Relish Single Family Zoning<\/em> tote bag. \u201cThis county cannot survive another generation of pickle inequality.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed legislation, which Elrich says he plans to call the \u201cDill of Rights Act,\u201d is expected to face stiff opposition from business owners, pickle enthusiasts, and Parkway Deli waitstaff who are tired of watching him double-fist brined vegetables during meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neighborhood associations are already mobilizing against the plan, warning that free pickles will \u201cbring unwanted outsiders\u201d into their communities. \u201cOnce you start giving away pickles, what\u2019s next? Free coleslaw in our parking lots?\u201d asked one resident, clutching a yard sign that read Stop Cramming More Pickles in MY Jar! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SILVER SPRING, MD – Speaking at a District 18 Breakfast Club meeting at Parkway Deli Monday morning, County Executive Marc Elrich said the restaurant’s beloved free pickle bar “actually kind of sucks” and will be introducing legislation to change it. See also Affordable housing program \u2018kind of sucks,\u2019 Elrich says\u00a0from Bethesda Today “They say the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[400,403,1754,114,389,1836,1828,724,836,183,516,95,1101,24,969,970,1130,916,319,370,140,489,1136,371,368,979,386,1838,1224,340,141,1387,1789,537,1593,317,1160,1848,189,640,399,309,1351,638,130,1755,1733,1925,339,6,1204,116,546,94,2096,162,542,93,136,4,1397,2,719,718,104,164,1218],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-adu","tag-affordable-housing","tag-all-are-welcome-here","tag-amazon","tag-apartments","tag-attainable-housing","tag-bethesda-today","tag-bethesdafication","tag-build-more-housing","tag-chevy-chase","tag-cnn","tag-comedy","tag-dc-news","tag-dc-satire","tag-dmv","tag-dmv-news","tag-dmv-satire","tag-downtown-silver-spring","tag-elrich","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news","tag-funny","tag-gentrification","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-housing-shortage","tag-hulu","tag-humor","tag-instagram","tag-joke","tag-local-news","tag-local-satire","tag-marc-elrich","tag-marcel-rich","tag-marcmansion","tag-maryland","tag-maryland-satire","tag-missing-middle","tag-moco","tag-moco-news","tag-moco-satire","tag-montgomery-county","tag-montgomery-county-news","tag-montgomery-county-satire","tag-more-housing-now","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-nimbee","tag-nimby","tag-parkway-deli","tag-parody","tag-pickle-bar","tag-politics","tag-reddit","tag-satire","tag-silver-spring","tag-takoma","tag-takoma-humor","tag-takoma-park","tag-takoma-park-news","tag-takoma-park-satire","tag-takoma-torch","tag-takomatorch","tag-thrive-montgomery","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/takomatorch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/photo0jpg-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPZSG-SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takomatorch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}