When my grandma was teaching me how to make pickles 'the old fashioned way', she used to tell me..."only use HALF the amount of pickling lime in the recipe, the pickles may not be as crisp, but I don't think it's natural that cukes that are cooked and stored in water for a long time stay crisp & crunch. I don't know what in that stuff, but it changes God's food.
And know we know why, eh? Those grandmas had SO much common sense!
'Probably because their brains weren't shoved full of fluoride and other mind-altering poison.