Following Edward Quartermaine's death In 2013, the infamously greedy Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliot) was enraged to find she had been cut out of her father's will and was left only a single jar of Pickle Lila relish, per Soap Opera Spy. ELQ had suffered severely after the loss of the family patriarch and everyone was desperate to save the company from ruin. When Tracy's nephew, AJ Quartermaine (Sean Kanan), beat her out for control of ELQ, she decided to establish her own company with the help of Nikolas Cassadine (then Tyler Christopher). She then intended to create her own relish called Pickle Eddie to compete with Pickle Lila, which AJ was using to revitalize ELQ just as his grandmother had done decades earlier. And thus, in one of daytime's most bizarre storylines ever, the relish wars began.

Prone to using shortcuts, Tracy then blackmailed super-hacker Damian Spinelli (Bradford Anderson) to steal Lila's secret recipe for her so she could use it for Pickle Eddie (via Soap Central). Set to debut their competing products at the same time, Tracy and AJ's epic battle culminated with a two-episode crossover with the ABC cooking-centered talk show "The Chew," in a segment dubbed "Clash of the Condiments" (via TV Guide). Both Elliot and Kanan, along with "GH" executive producer Frank Valintini, traveled to "The Chew" set in New York City to film the scenes, which featured hosts Mario Batali, Carla Hall, Daphne Oz, and Michael Symon.