Social Media Creator Serena Neel Fills Pool With 50,000 Pickles, Swims in It and Breaks World Record

Social media creator Serena Neel recently embarked on a wild task with pickles.

On Saturday, June 20, the YouTuber posted a 25-minute video on the platform titled “I Filled a Pool With 50,000 Pickles,” in which she revealed she bought 50,000 damaged pickles with no other use from her friend Josh Little, the founder of Josh’s Pickles, for $1.

In the video, Neel chronicled her journey to breaking the world record for the most pickles in a pool.

“We had 10,000 jars freeze. And when pickles freeze, they change cellular structure,” Little noted in the video. “They get soft and mushy. So, these aren’t edible. They’re not sellable. They’re not even donatable. We tried.”

Little said they built a ” dill-liminator” to remove the seasonings from the pickles before they entered the pool.

“This is a contraption that allows us to pour jars of pickles down the top. It separates the dill and garlic, which falls down below,” he explained. “The pickles tumble down the pickle wire fence, rinsed by all of the pressurized jets above, falling into a wheelbarrow, which will be moved to the pool with dill-liminated pickles.”

In the end, Neel completed her mission and filled the swimming pool with the green vegetables.

“You know, I really don’t feel that gross and slimy,” she admitted after she went for a dip. “I thought that I would, but the dill-liminator did a really great job cleaning off the pickles. I feel like I’ve become numb to the scent of pickles at this point. My hair smells a little garlicky.”

However, that wasn’t the end of Neel’s project, as she had a second task she wanted to complete.

“When I took on this mission, I knew that I not only wanted to repurpose the pickles, but also the pickle jars,” she shared. “And luckily, after talking to Josh, he was game to help us set another world record. So, we began setting aside the jars to build the world’s tallest pickle sculpture.”

In the end, the sculpture stood an impressive 16 feet tall, making it a world record.

As for what happened to the pickles after Neel was done with them, “Josh’s friends at Recyclops took the truckload of pickles and turned them into renewable energy,” she said.

“They removed all the oxygen, captured the released methane, and fed it straight into the natural gas pipeline, powering homes across Utah with pickles,” Neel further explained.