If you hang around a pickleball court long enough, you will hear someone say it: “We got pickled.” It is not about a snack. It is about the scoreboard.
On Printed Pickle’s FAQ, a pickle is winning a game 11-0, so the other team scores zero points. Getting pickled is being on the receiving end of that shutout. You played the game, and you never got on the board.
That 11-0 score is also why Printed Pickle exists. Sal, a retired CEO living in Venice, Florida, started making a little 3D-printed pickle trophy after matches with friends. The Classic Pickle is the version you hand the other team after an 11-0. It is 3D-printed in green PETG plastic in Venice, with a gray bottle-opener tooth, a red paracord lanyard, and the word Pickled! embossed on it. It sells for $3.99 and ships within the USA.
There is a rarer version of the same idea. The FAQ defines a golden pickle as when the first server of the game serves all 11 points in a row, so the other team never wins a single rally. Printed Pickle frames that moment as rare in the sport, which is why it gets the Golden Pickle: a gold-look PLA body (plastic, not real gold) with a solid brass bottle-opener tooth and a yellow lanyard, also $3.99.
Players already use “pickle” for an 11-0. Printed Pickle simply turned that moment into a physical handshake trophy that also opens a bottle.
The maker story behind it is short and specific. On the Our Story page, Sal writes that he designed the pickle in Fusion 360, started by handing them out to friends, then donated them to local tournaments to help raise money for charity, and only later began selling them when people asked if they could buy one. Every Printed Pickle is still designed and made in Venice, Florida, by Liberty Designs.
If one pickle is not enough for league night or a prize table, a 4-Pack is $14.99. You can choose all Classic, or 3 Classic + 1 Golden. A 4-Pack ships in one mailer for $6.99. A 10-Pack is $34.99, with a choice of all Classic, all Golden, 5 of each, or 9 Classic + 1 Golden, and it ships in one box for $8.99. Shipping is by USPS Ground Advantage, USA only, from Venice, Florida. The site says orders usually pack and ship the same business day, and that USPS Ground Advantage typically takes 2 to 5 business days in transit.
The point is not to celebrate running up the score. It is a light way to mark a shutout, laugh about it, and maybe crack something open afterward. If you have ever been pickled, or ever pickled someone, you already know the feeling. The trophy just gives you something to hand across the net.
You can read the FAQ definitions, the maker story at Our Story, and the product pages in the shop.