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Throngs swarm LES for pickle fest

An estimated 50,000 pickles met their end Sunday afternoon as the devoted, the curious, and the merely hungry descended on Orchard Street for the 7th Annual NYC International Pickle Day.

"I thought this would be a magnanimous event and didn't realize pickle lovers were such ravenous vultures," joked Douglas Calhoun, 23, of Brooklyn, as he munched on a jar of pickled Okra.

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