I don't get cramps, but I do tend to eat good quantities of pickled jalapeno's in the half gallon jars. Yum yum yum . What does this have in common with pickles ? What every pickled food does, vinegar. I'd try a swig of cider vinegar before I'd buy any pickles as I really like don't them at all. I'm pretty sure it's the vinegar people are responding to, not whatever food that the vinegar is mixed with.