‘I have more weird friends, but one takes the cake’, Marc Mercy emails. ‘He sometimes takes pickle juice with him on long bike rides. He easily suffers from muscle cramps and if he drinks the juice from a jar of sour pickles, that is immediately over. If he doesn’t have juice with him, he dares to go into a store, buy a jar, throw away the pickles and drink the juice. Is that in his head or really in his legs?’
