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You haven’t truly lived until you’ve bitten into a perfectly crisp fried pickle while Jimmy Buffett croons overhead and a plastic flamingo watches you from behind a tiki bar in suburban Virginia.

Imagine biting into a perfectly crisp fried pickle while steel drums play in the background and a plastic parrot watches you from behind a tiki bar – all without leaving the Commonwealth of Virginia.