The Case Against Pickles

[Kalstolyn]

Kals is questing again!

I loooove dill pickles (but not the kind with garlic) and will eat the entire jar at once if I'm not careful. Pickle brine is good for marinating roasts and also for making dried out carrot sticks edible (throw some carrots in a pickle jar for a couple of days and they become super yummy!!

I like bread-and-butter pickles well enough, but not as much as I like dill. The texture of bread-and-butter pickles is not the crunchy texture I love so much. They're more floppy and slimy. I still like them, though, particularly in cheese whiz sammiches.

I HATE sweet and sour pickles. or those gross mustard-sauce pickles (which is funny because I like mustard just fine). Bleh.

When I go out for burgers with my evil-twin-landlord-roommate, he picks all the pickles and onions off his burger and puts them on mine because I enjoy them a lot.

Pickles tried to kill one fo my classmates this year though; We had lunch at Denny's and she told the staff she was allergic to garlic. They put a pickle on her sandwich, not realising that almost all pickles have garlic in the brine. Then we complained and they gave us her meal for free all the while claiming they didn't even have garlic pickles on the premises.

In summary, pickles are very delicious. But only the right kinds of pickles. Also relish is gross. Except for Dill Bits (which is now called Tangy Dill, made by Bick's). I will not eat any other kind of relish because it is all very disgusting.

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[[ Terra ]]

I agree. I am not a fan of pickles. However, Jaft, any Australian can tell you that a real burger also has slices of fresh tomato, beetroot, and lettuce. razz

Jaft

I hear tea with heavy honey can help out with the aftermath of vomiting. Or maybe just suck down a bottle of honey.

Not for me. I can't stand honey. It makes me want to vomit.  

[Arcanas]

...I've never had this slimy bread and butter pickles you speak of Kals...

There is this brand of pickles, called "Bubbies" and they have a bread and butter that is nice and crispy  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

[ Terra ]

I agree. I am not a fan of pickles. However, Jaft, any Australian can tell you that a real burger also has slices of fresh tomato, beetroot, and lettuce. razz

Jaft

I hear tea with heavy honey can help out with the aftermath of vomiting. Or maybe just suck down a bottle of honey.

Not for me. I can't stand honey. It makes me want to vomit.

You just reminded me how badly I want to eat a honeycomb. Those are so delicious. Oh man...

And beetroot? What the heck? You island people seem to have confused what actually belongs on a hamburger. Next you'll be adding Skittles or Chinese broccoli. D8<  

[aretoo]

Oh, man... haven't had a nice slab of honeycomb in EONS. ...Hm... probably not since we'd take them out of the beehives and harvest the honey, come to think of it... smile  

[Chexley]

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
There they are a'standing in a row!

You can eat honeycomb...? Reeeeaaaally? eek

"Give them a twist, a flick of the wrist!"
That's what the showman said!

 

[Arcanas]

sounds interesting...how's the texture?  

[blue_green]

Not really. I actually haven't eaten pickles in over a month now, but I am only just now getting a sore throat. sweatdrop

And, yes, pickle brine is DELICIOUS!!! I like it when I take a big gulp and the sourness gives me shivers. I get shivers because it's TOO sour, but I can't help but love it anyways.  

[Miss-dark8607]

WOW I didn't know people dislike or even hated Pickles! I love them. Then again they are in all my favorite foods. Though I like them spicy.

I hate cherries and carrots. My mom lied to me about carrots. I still wear glasses even though I ate mush carrots as a kid. UGH  

[wakusei]

All the honey talk makes me want a Crunchie.  

[Kalstolyn]

Miss-dark8607

I hate cherries and carrots.

Interestingly, people who are allergic to raw cherries are often also allergic to raw carrots.  

[Jafthasleftthebuilding]

I'd say eating honeycomb is like eating... Hmm. I think of wafers, but that's not exactly it.

It can be crispy, crunchy with each little compartment being filled with honey, and then slathered in more honey. Well, maybe not slathered, but there's a lot of honey. I've only had the opportunity to eat it once in my life... in Turkey or Israel. >_>
I wonder how it tastes now.

Also, it's not crispy in the potato chip way, more like the wafer way, I guess, think of a giant wafer with honeycomb compartments. Yeah... Then we're sort of getting there. Maybe aretoo can describe it better.

You can probably find some at Whole Foods, I'm not sure about Trader Joe's.

Carrots still have vitamins for your eyeballs over in them, whether or not you wear glasses. I should eat more of them. What's up, Doc?

@Kyla: She is my sworn enemy. O_O  

[Elcia]

I don't mind pickles and actually on particularly sad fast food burgers they can sometimes be the taste highlight of the whole meal.

But then I either have very sensitive tastebuds or something because I'm hard to please with food tastes.

Want to know what is culinary evil? Brussels sprouts !
Those things are nasty nasty nasty no matter how you cook them. Except (and this goes along with pickling) my mother pickled some over winter break and the first batch especially was actually tolerable.
But I refuse to touch them otherwise.


(also carrots are good for your eyes but if you spend too much time indoors growing up focused on nearsighted work you are still going to be more prone to not being able to see far away.)  

[wakusei]

Brussels sprouts are delicious, don't know what you're talkin' about! talk2hand