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

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.

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

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.

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

So, more for you!

. . . from my cold dead knife and fork.

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.

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

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

my unlisted choice would be pickled squid.

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/

They're weird.

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

Yuck.

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

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

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

A bit too sweet for my taste.

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.

and vinegar.

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

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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...

taste but keeping them longer.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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?)

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