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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 03:23 AM May 2018

Pickles: love them, hate them, meh ?

I'm kind of in the meh category. I was really avoidant with pickles when I was a kid, so my brother played tricks on me and hid them in my drive-in burgers to get me to eat them, and then said "AHA, you DID eat a pickle!"

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Pickles: love them, hate them, meh ? (Original Post) steve2470 May 2018 OP
I love all kinds of pickles, but particularly the ones called "half dill". (They're like a less fierywoman May 2018 #1
Same with me! Rhiannon12866 May 2018 #2
That makes three of us! Phentex May 2018 #11
Sour, dill, or polish dills get a thumbs up. SamKnause May 2018 #3
Sweet pickles yes. Dill no. Doreen May 2018 #4
We have totally opposite tastes. SamKnause May 2018 #5
Don't even like being in the same room as a pickle. Laffy Kat May 2018 #6
I'm that way with onions! The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #14
Oh, certainly onions would do that, too. Yep. nt Laffy Kat May 2018 #15
I'm in the "meh" category. n/t area51 May 2018 #7
Like them as a condiment Freddie May 2018 #8
42 years my wife has been giving me hers Tribalceltic May 2018 #9
My mom put sweet pickles in her potato salad, which I devoured, but lkinwi May 2018 #10
Love good kosher dill pickles! smirkymonkey May 2018 #12
Dills yes, not so crazy about the sweet ones. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #13
Nope, No Pickles Leith May 2018 #16
Love em all! 😋 Floyd R. Turbo May 2018 #17
I love pickles OriginalGeek May 2018 #18
It depends on the pickles. GoCubsGo May 2018 #19
Love them! Luciferous May 2018 #20

fierywoman

(7,683 posts)
1. I love all kinds of pickles, but particularly the ones called "half dill". (They're like a less
Wed May 23, 2018, 03:25 AM
May 2018

briney kosher dill.)

Laffy Kat

(16,378 posts)
6. Don't even like being in the same room as a pickle.
Wed May 23, 2018, 03:53 AM
May 2018

Cannot stand the smell or taste. What really gets me--and yes, this is a First World problem--even if you order your food w/o pickles, they will always put them on the plate anyway. If you complain about it they just take them off the plate, or burger, or whatever they are on, except it's too late. By now everything already tastes/smells like pickles. And what's with fried pickles all of the sudden? They're effing everywhere. Arrrrgh!

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
8. Like them as a condiment
Wed May 23, 2018, 04:49 AM
May 2018

On a burger, in a salad etc. but rarely eat them "straight". Dill pickle relish in egg salad

lkinwi

(1,477 posts)
10. My mom put sweet pickles in her potato salad, which I devoured, but
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:12 AM
May 2018

I won’t touch any other pickles. I hate it when I bite into an errant pickle slice on my hamburger which was somehow hidden under the lettuce and tomato.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Love good kosher dill pickles!
Wed May 23, 2018, 10:30 PM
May 2018

Especially on burgers, sandwiches, in tartar sauce, etc. I absolutely hate sweet pickles. My mother always made both sweet and dill pickles. She called the sweet pickles "bread and butter pickles". They were good if you go for that kind of thing, but I am just not into sweet pickles. My favorites are Claussen's pickles. I just love them!

Leith

(7,809 posts)
16. Nope, No Pickles
Thu May 24, 2018, 12:57 PM
May 2018

But I don't go overboard. If there are pickles on a burger, I just take them out. If there's a slice next to my sandwich, hubby gets it.

Asian style pickles (pickled in salt) are good, but I don't have them often.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
18. I love pickles
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:33 PM
May 2018

hot ones, sweet ones, dill ones, pickled other things too - like okra and watermelon rinds. Never tried a pigs feet or egg though.

one of my top 5 perfect meals is grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup and sweet pickles.

Costco sometimes has Famous Dave's sweet hot pickles. Spicy fun!

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
19. It depends on the pickles.
Thu May 24, 2018, 10:28 PM
May 2018

Good, refrigerated kosher dills...yep, especially garlic dils. Homemade pickles of any kind...yep. The shelf-stable dills,Vlassic and Mt. Olive...meh. Their sweet pickles and relish...okay.

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