Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,?

Question

a peck of pickled peppers peter piper picked. Ques. If Mr. Piper picked said peppers, how many did he pick?

Answer 1

8 quarts

Answer 2

I thought you picked the peppers, then pickled them instead of the other way around, pickling them on the vine. But assuming you can, Google says that 1 peck is about 9.3 quarts (I sort of remembered 8 quarts from school). You need to find out how many peppers will fit into a quart or a peck. If a pepper is roughly a cube 2.5 in on a side, then 1 quart is 3.6 peppers, or 1 peck is about 34 peppers if one of the peppers is smaller than usual.

But before jumping to the conclusion that one can smash 34 peppers into a peck container, consider that not all the space in the container can be filled. This gets into a difficult sphere packing problem, or rather, a pepper packing problem. Further, the pickling will shrink the peppers, making you be able to pack more. Probably the best way to find out is to buy 2 pecks of peppers, pickle them, then put them into one of the peck containers and see how many fit.

Answer 3

How can Pickled Peppers be Pickled? That would mean that they are pickles with spicy flavor, or peppers flavored like pickles? Either way thats one sick flavor.

And a peck means hex which means six so he picked six. Maybe.

Answer 4

about .25 bushel or 2 gallons or (as already stated) 8 quarts. A peck [or English "pek"] is a unit of volume measurement.

Answer 5

As many pickled peppers as peter piper could....

Answer 6

A peck, I guess... about three bushels? Or is a peck 2 bushels... I can't remember!

Answer 7

challenging stuff. look into on yahoo. that will may help!