Pickles, One type of pickle has to go---Kosher, Dill, Bread & Butter, Gherkin I pick Dill, What about you?

[debm55]

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Bread and butter. Always made too sweet, in my experience.

BTW, Dill is my default go-to. :/

[debm55]

3. Thank you eppur_se_muova.

[pansypoo53219]

66. my grandma's isn't. i make them w/ extra onions. if you stop cooking the moment it starts to boil you get crunchier.

i also discovered crappy drought pickles make them better. i have 1 1/2 jars left from last batch. if we don't have a drought. i will just pickle onions. great salad dressing or coleslaw.

[debm55]

68. Thank you very much. pansypoo53219. They sound delicious.

[pansypoo53219]

70. i didn't trust my skills, so i kept them in the fridge. i think they are 2 yrs old now. the open jar cukes didn't

make it. but i saved the onions + juice for salad. i put good pickles on my lettuce. that was good.

[debm55]

71. Thats a good idea for the onions and juice. Thank you

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Gherkin.

I’m not a huge pickle fan but I do like an occasional pickle on my sandwich or burger. But I can’t stand Gherkins for some reason.

[debm55]

4. Thank you Elessar Zappa.

[Phoenix61]

5. Bread and Butter. It's like a sweet pickle someone put on a diet. Yuck. nt

[debm55]

7. HAHAHAHAHA Thank you Phoenix61. that's funny.

[FirstLight]

6. I'm leaning to Gherkin

I got a funny story tho....
My Dad, never one to pass up a "deal" bought a bushel of cucumbers from some guy and we spent the entire summer canning pickles!

I was the youngest, and stood on a chair and stirred the pot of boiling crap....for YEARS i HATED pickles, the smell was like a trauma trigger...LOL

[debm55]

8. Thank you very much for your post FirstLight. That is sort of gross.

[FirstLight]

38. maaaan....you have no idea... I still give my parents' ghosts shit for that, LOL

[Basso8vb]

9. All of them need to stay off my plate.

So, more for you!

[debm55]

11. Thank you Basso8vb I love pickles. Yummy. And welcome to DU.

[dameatball]

10. Bread and butter. Mom loved them so we tolerated them.

[debm55]

13. Thank you dameatball.

[Richard D]

12. You can pry my kosher dill . . .

. . . from my cold dead knife and fork.

[debm55]

14. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH. Thank you Richard D.

[quaint]

15. ...and my fingers

[debm55]

16. Sorry, quant, I don't understand

[quaint]

17. I replied to Richard.

I added my fingers, indicating I eat kosher dills with my fingers, not properly as he does with his knife and fork.
Sorry to be a poor communicator.

[debm55]

18. Sorry I like to eat pickles also with my fingers unless they are on a sammy. No need to apologize

[10 Turtle Day]

20. Agreed! The only pickle worth eating is a kosher dill!

[debm55]

22. Thank you 10 Turtle Day.

[ravjav]

19. Bread and Butter

I don't like sweet pickles except in pickle relish. My fav are half sours. I've made them myself when I can.

[debm55]

23. Thank you ravjav. I like sweet pickles on my sammy. The half sour sounds interesting.

[Glorfindel]

35. I love half sours. When I go to NYC to visit cousins, I ask them to get some for me.

I haven't been able to find them anywhere around here (the southern Appalachians of north Georgia).

[debm55]

37. Thank you Glorfindel.for explaining to me.

[AnnaLee]

21. Kosher since I never buy it anyway but

my unlisted choice would be pickled squid.

[debm55]

24. Thank you AnnaLee. It sounds interesting.

[MichMan]

25. Safie, a Michigan brand of Bread & Butter pickles are delicious

Normally I prefer Kosher Dill, but these Safie Bread & Butter are incredible. For some reason, their Deli Dill pickles didn't do much for me.

https://safiefoods.com/product/old-fashioned-bread-butter-pickles/

[debm55]

27. Thank you MichMan. Long ago I would make my own. Now I buy. thank you much for the link.

[viva la]

26. Gherkin.

They're weird.

[debm55]

28. Thank you viva la. When I was young I would eat them by the bottle. I haven't had one for a long time.

[viva la]

60. You can have mine!

Aren't they just sweet pickles? But they're so warty.

[debm55]

61. Hahahahahahaha Yes,they are warty. No, I haven't eaten in a long, long time.

[LoisB]

29. Dill

[debm55]

31. Thank you LoisB. I agree.

[Solly Mack]

30. Bread & Butter.

Yuck.

[debm55]

32. Thank you Solly Mack.

[TommieMommy]

33. I don't like dill pickles

[debm55]

34. Thank you TommieMommy. I hear ya.

[arkielib]

36. Bread and Butter

I accidentally put some on a hamburger once instead of my normal dill slices.

[debm55]

39. Thank you arkuelib,

[piddyprints]

40. Nooooo!

You can’t make me decide. I rarely eat them, but I like them all.

[debm55]

41. Cool down , relax and just pick one, just one. It will be alright., piddyprints.

[Bristlecone]

42. B & B goes.

[debm55]

44. Thank you Bristlecone.

[applegrove]

43. Strubb's Kosher. Love them. But my grocery store did not carry

them the last time I looked. There was another Kosher brand that I bought that were almost as good.

[debm55]

45. Thank you applegrove. Enjoy.

[Polly Hennessey]

46. I'm with 'piddyprints', I love them all. 🥒

[debm55]

50. Thank you Polly Hennessey.

[Different Drummer]

47. Not a fan of bread and butter pickles.

A bit too sweet for my taste.

[debm55]

51. Thank you Different Drummer.

[The Roux Comes First]

48. As a Bit of a Pickle (and Pickling!) Fanatic

I have to give a thumbs-down to B&B. For me sugar and sweetness rarely should be dancing with the joix de vivre of vinegar. I confess I occasionally tolerate a little relish with a hint of sweet.

I pickled two quarts of home-grown beans yesterday (experimental adds: fresh rosemary and thyme) and five quarts of purchased cukes a month ago. Peppers and maybe some fruit still on the docket. Even when the recipes I consult call for it, I rarely include sugar in my brine.

[debm55]

53. Wow Thank you very much The Roux Comes First , you are very talented to make all of those. I see your point with the

and vinegar.

[get the red out]

49. Bread and Butter

DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[debm55]

55. Thank you get the red out.

[GreenWave]

52. I don't want a pickle. I just want to ride on my motor sickle.

[debm55]

54. Thank you GreenWare. That's funny

[SWBTATTReg]

56. Man, I'm in a pickle, I'm not sure which pickle to pick, so I'll pick all of them!

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Ha ha heh. I love all pickles. I guess growing up in the Country makes one love them. But we pickled everything, pickled cauliflower, okra, green beans, bell peppers (cut up chunks), you name it, we pickled it. It was kind of neat, being that you don't usually see non-pickled items in the store hardly. I guess when you don't have electricity, and such, you tend to pickle things, so they'll last longer.

Wanted to add other things we pickled...watermelon, tomatoes (and one other poster mushrooms)...

So neat...

[debm55]

57. Thank you very much, SWBTATTReg for your great post. Yes , you did seem to pickle everything, And it wasn't just for the

taste but keeping them longer.

[PufPuf23]

62. Pickled Matsutake (locally called tanoak) mushrooms.

Grew up old school where family pickled, canned, dried and smoked; hunted and fished; large garden and gathered from the forest; and had horses, cows, chickens and pigs. There was no electricity until my childhood in early 50s and telephones in 1969.

Have my grandmother's recipes written or pasted in her spiral notebook plus her 1920s Joy of Cooking with more recipes pasted, taped or written in every available place, all old school recipes and methods; and how foods were preserved before electricity. Going to county historical society.

[SWBTATTReg]

74. How neat! Hopefully you've passed on some of your GrandMa's recipes to others to enjoy too, keep the tradition

going. My Mom did this, she put together a cookbook, w/ the family's favorite recipes in it, which of course included lots of Grandma's stuff in it, and it was a hit w/ all of us kids (and our grandkids too).

I love the Joy of Cooking, and you have one from the 1920s? Wow, wow, wow! It's nice you got it going to the County Historical Society (but be sure to copy those recipes you love just in case for your future use).

I don't know how many endless hours I spent w/ Mom and Grandma in the kitchen over my younger years. It was a hoot!

[PufPuf23]

58. Bread and butter except for on tuna sandwiches.

Miss the pickles made by mother (RIP 1983) and grandmother (RIP 1979).

[debm55]

59. Thank you PufPuf23. I agree. And no one makes them the way our relatives did because it was made with love.

[ProfessorGAC]

63. Bread & Butter By A Light-Year

I don't like sweet pickles in the tiniest degree. Many gherkin recipes are too sweet for me, too.
Garlic dill, for me.

[debm55]

75. Thank you ProfessorGAC. Garlic Dill sounds good.

[Luciferous]

64. Bread and butter

[debm55]

69. Thank you Luciferous.

[OldBaldy1701E]

65. Yeah, bread and butter has to go. (n/t)

[debm55]

67. Thank you OldBaldy1701E,

[IbogaProject]

72. Gherkin

Only because you asked. I'm ok w Gherkin.

[debm55]

73. HAHHAHAHAHAHAH. Thank you IbogaProject.

[catbyte]

76. Kosher

I'm not a garlic fan and they're always too garlicky for me, lol. But my favorite pickles are hot pickles but not sweet hot. The Dill Zingers from Kroger's are good, but I usually make my own (I put dried red peppers in the jar) to make them as spicy as I like. Nothing better with mashed potatoes. (Is that weird?)

[debm55]

78. Thank you catbyte. No not weird. In fact it sounds very good.

[Ninga]

77. Dill ugh. But..,,

I like dill relish but NoT dill pickles.
Weird huh?

[debm55]

79. Thank you Ninga. Agree. sweet relish in egg or tuna salad gives it a kick.

[sinkingfeeling]

80. Bread and butter without a doubt.

[debm55]

81. Thank you sinkingfeeling