tasty pickles

[Perfection]

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A PICKLE?

Do you like dill pickles? Sweet pickles? Spicy pickles?

What are your goto pickles?

Pickles can be cukes of course but often other things can be pickled? What are your stances on that? Pickled eggs pickled herring all sorts of pickled possibilities!!!

My goto pickles are these screwballs.

I like 'ems cuz theys salty got excellent cronch and are like $5 for a 32ounce jar. Noncronchy soggers dills can yeet to hell

I've had half sours pretty recently which were pretty good like they were not super salty and had fresh cuke taste.

My biggest pickle problem is not having a good source of sweet pickled beets at local grocers. I may end up having to figure out how to make the things myself because theys yums and i needs them

ANYWAYS PICKLES PICKLES PICKLES PICKLES PICKLES PICKLES

 

[Samson]

For purchase, this is the best pickle in the best container

The only one I have got into making is Kimchi. It is great, really easy to make if you add some live yogurt as a starter.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Pickled herring, definitely. I remember when I was 6, eating them for the first time. My great-aunt said proudly, "You can tell that _____ is a real Swede because she can eat them without bread and without making a face!" (from the vinegar).

Believe it or not, I had a dog who loved pickled herring.

Pickled is the only way I can tolerate cauliflower.

Dill pickle-flavored potato chips are tasty.

A light sprinkling of dill goes nicely on baked salmon.


I've taken a deep dive into Merlin fandom. The 3rd-season episode that introduces the character of Gwaine has him ordering 4 DOZEN pickled eggs in a tavern (dunno if he ate all of them, but he was extremely drunk by the time Merlin came to get him and take him back to the castle).

My question is this: Why would anyone ever eat a pickled egg? It sounds disgusting, like the beginning of egg salad without the actual salad part.

 

[Samson]

Pickled herring, definitely. I remember when I was 6, eating them for the first time. My great-aunt said proudly, "You can tell that _____ is a real Swede because she can eat them without bread and without making a face!" (from the vinegar).

Rollmop herring are great.

I've taken a deep dive into Merlin fandom. The 3rd-season episode that introduces the character of Gwaine has him ordering 4 DOZEN pickled eggs in a tavern (dunno if he ate all of them, but he was extremely drunk by the time Merlin came to get him and take him back to the castle).

My question is this: Why would anyone ever eat a pickled egg? It sounds disgusting, like the beginning of egg salad without the actual salad part.

Picked eggs are also great, they are readily available in the supermarket here. They are a standard pub snack. The best way is to eat them with crisps (chips to some over the pond). Described quite well here:

It was never better than when you had a packet of Smith’s Crisps plain crisps with the salt in a little blue paper twist which you sprinkled mostly over the egg. Hopefully the egg should have been scooped by the barman out of the jar with a little bit of vinegar so, in the end, you got salt and vinegar crisps. On a good night you had a riot of textures: the rubbery egg white, soft yolk, and crisp-going-on sogginess of the crisps, depending on where in the packet you delved.​

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Some, like me, preferred plain crisps. Other people reckoned cheese n onion was the flavour to go for.​

 

[Angst]

pickles is one of the things, from what i can tell, that americans get right. in denmark (and europe) the default, what we usually get, is the varieties in sugary brine. meaning we're missing out on a lot of nuances to the flavor that americans enjoy.

 

[Sarin]

Around here, varieties of pickled cheese (it's actually more marinated than pickled as there's little to no fermentation) are common "pub" food. Most common are local varieties of Camembert or Brie.

 

[Samson]

Around here, varieties of pickled cheese (it's actually more marinated than pickled as there's little to no fermentation) are common "pub" food. Most common are local varieties of Camembert or Brie.

A classic pickle will have no fermentation. Kimchi and sauerkraut are different, most are just a "marinade" in vinegar.

 

[amadeus]

I like things that are pickled. Fish, kimchi, sauerkraut, vegetables. Not all at the same time.

Most of the supermarkets here just carry one kind, I suppose just regular ones. Doesn’t bother me much, I’ve been in the country so long now that I really don’t need a lot of American food.

 

[Ajidica]

Absolutely hate pickles.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Pickles are lovely. Sweet or bread and butter, please. No dills. Eat them out of the jar or on a sandwich.

 

[Samson]

bread and butter

Where does that name come from. Google gives me recipes that look pretty conventional.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Where does that name come from. Google gives me recipes that look pretty conventional.

I don't know. That is just what I've always know them as. The term, for me, dates back to the 70s and 80s when we and many of our friends were into canning veggies so it is likely that it was grabbed from recipes!

 

[red_elk]

Pickled herring is tasty, but it must be pickled in brine and served with onion and sunflower oil dressing.
Cucumbers are ok too, with mashed potatoes and cold vodka.

 

[Samson]

I don't know. That is just what I've always know them as. The term, for me, dates back to the 70s and 80s when we and many of our friends were into canning veggies so it is likely that it was grabbed from recipes!

I found this on the very page I linked. It does not say what is unique about them:

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Apparently, these pickles got their name during the Great Depression in America in the 1930s. Pickles were very cheap, so people often ate them for lunch with bread and butter.​

 

[Birdjaguar]

Perfect!

 

[sophie]

I absolutely love pickles. A nice half-sour dill spear just hits the spot so often.

Quick pickled red onions are my go-to, an excellent topping or accoutrement for so many dishes

 

[Samson]

Cucumbers are ok too, with mashed potatoes and cold vodka.

I guess cold vodka makes most things good, but pickled cucumbers to flavour mashed potatoes sounds a little spartan.

 

[red_elk]

Adding pickled cabbage and salo won't hurt

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My grandmother once sent a pickle sandwich with me to school one day (in junior high).

Let's just say that I didn't eat lunch that day, other than drink my fruit juice. That sandwich was disgusting.

This was a school without a cafeteria, where everyone had to bring their own lunch. I lived just half a block from the school, but could not go home without a note from my grandmother, signed by the home room teacher, presented to the school secretary, and sign out when I left and in when I got back.

Such were the realities of attending a county school located inside the city limits; I had to obey the same rules as the kids who lived miles out of town on a farm.

This is one reason I finally persuaded my grandmother to write a letter to the school to request a permanent lunch hour pass for me to come home if I wanted. So on the days when I didn't need to do noontime homework, wasn't volunteering for a teacher (I'd do stapling or prepare stencils for copying; this was before photocopiers were a thing), or wasn't doing prefect duties (supervising the Grade 1-4 hallway at noontime while the teachers ate in their own lounge), I'd go home for a soup, sandwich, and juice, or sometimes my grandmother had other things ready.

But no pickles, thankyouverymuch.

 

[EgonSpengler]

pickles is one of the things, from what i can tell, that americans get right. in denmark (and europe) the default, what we usually get, is the varieties in sugary brine. meaning we're missing out on a lot of nuances to the flavor that americans enjoy.

I think it was our immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe that we have to thank for that, beginning in the 19th Century. There was a time when German food was very popular here (where we got hot dogs and hamburgers, among other things), and European Ashkenazi Jews created the iconic American delicatessens*. Even today, most store-bought brands of pickles still say "kosher" on them, even though few people actually keep kosher anymore. The word kosher just became a kind of a stamp of authenticity for good pickles.


* Of course the word "delicatessen" is the plural in the original German, but many of us here didn't know that. So the word "delicatessen" in American English is the singular. Starting around WWII, we just started calling them delis anyway, but on the signage you might still see the whole word written out, like at Katz's Delicatessen in New York.