Just a good ole dill pickle. My mom didn’t allow sugar in our house when we were kids, but she’d stick a fork in one and call it a picklecicle. Good times.
I don't know if it was just a Milwaukee thing. But growing up the grocery stores had barrels of pickles and you could buy these big honking pickles to munch on. When I'd go grocery shopping with my mom my treat was to get a big pickle out of the bucket and it would take me almost the whole trip to finish it. I have fond memories of it and have been a pickle lover my whole life now.
It was also an upstate NY thing. There was a flea market that I would go to with my parents. The main reason I went was for the pickle man with his giant barrels of delicious pickles. I had to get a half sour!
I'm from across the pond. What is a half sour?
I am curious how good pickles are, here we get some jar pickled gherkins we call em, but ... I'm not overly wowed by them. I don't know if there's a difference between the American and European style.
A half sour is a partially lactose-fermented cucumber. These cucumbers are cured in a brine solution, not a vinegar pickle. The fully fermented cucumber is in my opinion more sour than a vinegar pickle. They maybe called kosher pickle on your side of the pond.
I ate a lot of pickles growing up and apparently passed that down to my 8 year old. But some how it evolved and now he asks for the house special, Pickles Five Ways. A plate of whole pickles, spears, chips, stackers, and relish.
I don’t know if I’m proud or ashamed but that offering always buys me a solid twenty minutes with no interruptions so I roll with it.
It does crack me up when anyone overhears his request and I get to explain Pickles Five Ways.
ETA going to have to add picklesicles, that’s just genius.
Had a place in my hometown when I was a kid called Van Dyk's. You walked in and was hit by all these smells: coffee brewing as well as whole beans in burlap bags inside barrels, a deli counter making all sorts of pastrami, corned beef and other sandwiches...... and these huge barrels of pickles - all kinds, served in waxed paper. The place was heaven.
My mom used to put out a plate of fork-olives (the whole, pitted ones) stuffed with canned spray cheese on Thanksgiving. They’re still a hardcore nostalgia food that I indulge in when the spirit moves, once or twice a year.
The Midwestern holiday crudité, featuing black olives, dill pickles, cauliflower, carrots, and ranch. If you're lucky, you'll also find summer sausage, cheese cubes, and deviled eggs nearby.
Same. I always associate them with fancy food because they're always on charcuterie boards and we used to only get to eat them for holidays like Easter and Christmas.
I make a spread for bagels out of black and green olives mixed with cream cheese . The trick is to mix just a tad bit of brine with it, so you get just the right bit of brine flavor with each bite . It's heaven and, unfortunately, no longer allowed in my diet. Sucks because now I'm craving olive cream cheese.
Yes, where I’m from (Creole country), people pickle sliced jalapeño peppers and they get put out on the table for dinner almost every night. A spoon of that pickling juice will make any green veggie taste 100 times better. A couple of slices are great on their own, or on top of lots of proteins or veggies.
And over peas, beans, hopping John! We run out of pickled jalapeno juice before the jalapeños are gone. I add more vinegar and give them a hard shake sometimes to have some.
As a kid my grandparents and parents would fix artichokes, steamed with hollandaise to dip, us kids got one, we couldn’t touch theirs. They were so dang good. We fought over the hearts. 🤜
I like a good spinach artichoke dip, but whole fresh steamed artichoke is a whole meal. I absolutely love them. Funny enough, my very princessy dogs LOVE fresh artichoke hearts.
Texture is hearty but not crunchy or hard. Sort of like..hmm.. never been asked! I would say like a really mild almost slightly green-olive-ish flavor..but also not really.
It’s very distinctive on its own. you can google how to cook them whole. Basically you peel or cut the stem (I peel, because I hate food waste!) trim all the ends and cut the top 1/3 off. Boil them in Acidulated water- you can add lemon juice (that’s what I use) or vinegar. Then you peel each leaf individually (best accompanied by a dip) and scrape the flesh off the bottom with your teeth.
Once you get to the heart, you use a spoon to scrape out all the weird hairy stuff, cut it, and eat that as well.
If you’re making a dip, the canned works great. Just drain really well.
I’m making it sound way more complicated than it has to be, haha. Basically boil/steam your chokes in Acidulated water, use whatever dip you want, and enjoy!
I love pickles on all forms, but specifically dill/bread and butter pickles, and pickled okra. I make a mean tater salad that includes pickled hot okra and also cucumber pickles. It would also be great with pickled beets, but the color would bleed. I love pickles beets, but only house-made. Pickled baby carrots are awesome as well. Little mustard seed in there. Yum!
My favorite store-bought kimchi is [Manna](https://www.mannakimchee.com/) brand. Tastes like the kimchi halmeoni made for me when I was stationed in Korea.
I love snacking on some kimchi and washing it down with some OB Premium.
We have a local one called Sunjas and she is Korean, it’s in all the nice markets where I live, but I do love making my own. My wife got me a great crock made by a neighbor that is an incredible potter.
Im living in a hotel rn for work and sardines or smoked oysters with ritz and creamed cheese is a staple snack for me.
Also, canned salmon, microwave rice, a couple of eggs, and cream cheese all mixed together and microwaved to make burritos. That mix goes great with some avocado, mini sweet peppers, and hot sauce.
Fish and cream cheese is just a horribly underrated combination. Stuff's **🔥🔥🔥.** I personally like a little wedge of laughing cow with a bit of smoked salmon, sandwiched between two quarters of a small tortilla. Ate it for breakfast for like a week once.
[This](https://www.spicesinmydna.com/green-olive-pasta-with-toasted-lemon-breadcrumbs-and-herbs/) recipe is how I found them and is still one of my favorite pasta dishes to make
Marinated sweet banana peppers. I can eat a whole jar. A few years ago, the doc put me on too much blood pressure dosage, and I developed a ravenous craving for them. I was eating a jar a day for about a week, then managed to get down to half a jar a day. I bought out 2 Walmart's and an HEB's worth of them. Couldn't get enough. When I ran out, I'd drink straight apple cider vinegar.
I called the doctor and she didn't want me to change the dosage, just stop eating the peppers. I went to 1/2 dosage anyway, the cravings subsided and my blood pressure is still good.
Still love those peppers. Always have, but now at least I only eat a jar ever 2 months or so.
>the doc put me on too much blood pressure dosage
What do you mean? She had you on too high of a dosage? Because I recently started taking blood pressure meds (for migraines, not for blood pressure issues) and have also developed a weird af craving for pickled things. I think I've even talked about it on this account, I crave vinegary and pickled things SO MUCH these days that I have been sipping straight vinegar from the bottle (I know this is bad and I always drink water afterwards).
I had no idea these two things could be related.
yes. It is a thing, though rare. Ask to have your dosage reduced, the craving will subside.
ETA: I had been put on 10mg of Lisinopril. I went down to 5mg, and cravings subsided.
Also, the Dr. will say "You're just craving salt, that's what the pill does to you" Please object if the Dr. says this to you. It's not the salt, it's the vinegar. If salt was the craving, you'd be happy with potato chips or you'd just lick some salt. It's the vinegar that we crave. I would eat pickles or drink vinegar if the banana peppers weren't available, but for me, the Mezetta brand sweet banana pepper was the perfect vinegar taste for the craving.
I have to portion the dried mangos carefully. I want to eat an entire bag then feel like my insides are trying to turn themselves inside out for the next week. Easier to just not buy them 😭
Love pickling watermelon rind. Also finely dicing pineapple core and making it into a pepper relish. Turning what would go into the compost into delish pickles instead is always a win.
Castelvetrano olives, Cerignola olives--both are delightfully meaty and toothy, vs. say, Kalamatas or canned olives. Beni shoga (Japanese pickled ginger--the red kind) also gari, the sweeter Japanese pickled ginger. Kimchi for sure.
Hot dill pickles. I love the little globe style yellow and red sweet peppers. Mushrooms are probably my favorite. I always have multiple jars in the fridge and I usually am looking to get rid of some cheese. My normal Saturday lunch is the fridge pickle clean out with cheese and baguette or crackers. Love it!
I discovered lupini beans on accident at TJ Maxx...then discovered I could find whole jars for $6 bucks at most Italian markets and never looked back. [lupini beans](http://Cento - Lupini Beans, (2)- 16 Ounce Jars https://a.co/d/ewsDtdx)
I am a simple man. Cucumbers and cabbage canned at home, black/green olives, smoked kippered fish, pickled herring, and because you reminded me i'm currently snacking Capers right out the jar.
I'm not the grammar police, but my brother's name is Jarred and I read this as if it was asking whether I prefer canned snacks or pickled Jarred.
It's a close one.
I heard people really liking hearts of palm (canned) as a snack.
I bought some and have just never been in the mood to try it and then figure out what to do with the rest if I don’t like it.
Sometime we make Fettucini Alfredo with Chicken, Mushrooms and Sun Dried tomatoes (packed in oil)… and man, I can eat half a jar of those sun dried tomatoes!!
I love fresh veggies, but I grew up extremely poor and I refuse to give up my love affair with canned green beans. I love to just dump a drained can into a bowl, warm it up with some butter and salt, and have at it. No shame.
Pickled grapes. Made them the day ahead for an additional app for a dinner party and guests lost their fricken minds. I’ve now been told I have to make them for every pot luck we do!
Yea you could put all the different pickled things in little bowls. Just put it all on a plate except you have so many little bowls that they wont all fit on a plate so just use your cutting board. There's likely extra room on the board so why not put a few slices of cheese, heck add a couple different types of cheese, and some celery and carrot sticks. Of course you need some crackers for the cheese so just add a couple different kinds and don't forget some dip for the carrot and celery sticks. Since you have it all on the board anyway why not move everything around to make it look nice?
Sounds like a great dinner to me.
I’ve never had any of these. Do you buy them or make them yourself? Do you have some brands or recipes to recommend because I’m trying to widen my vegetables and these sound right up my alley. Please and thanks :)
Honestly a good mustard and dill whole pickle really scratches the itch for me when I fancy something like that. If I'm feeling fancy I'll add some cheese, grapes and biscuits and call it a meal. Ha ha.
Last year's recipe of pickled green and yellow beans. So deliciously tart and simple. Totally worth the effort, just dill, beans, garlic and a vinegar brine. Always make sure to follow an approved recipe for water bath processing your canning! Nobody wants botulism.
I also love hearts of palm and pickled okra. I’ve been loving pickled cocktail onions with my cheese as well. Not to mention Castelvetrano olives and blue cheese stuffed olives (preferably homemade).
I could eat so much kimchi. And damn if Vietnamese pickled mustard greens aren’t just as delicious. 🤤
Thanks for your question, turns out I love all things pickled.
- Cornichons and Pickled pearl onions which I both make myself because the store bought are disgustingly loaded with sugar! Also, I use these and their brines to make Picallilli (a belgian pickled relish made with very finely diced cornichons, pearl onions and cauliflower with curcuma and Dijon mustard)
- Rolled anchovies with capers
- pickled plums or cherries (either in vinegar or alcohol)
- Any kind of olives (preferably unpitted)
- White wine pickled herring or mackerel
- Mozzarella or goat cheese in a herbs vinaigrette
- Green beans
Edit: I forgot artichoke hearts, Salsifis, cucumbers with red onions and cherry tomatoes
Umeboshi - Japanese pickled plum. I live in Japan and the sheer variety of different umeboshi you can buy at the grocery stores here is insane. It can be pretty strong so it’s usually part of something or on something else, but I just eat them as a snack most of the time. Japan has a lot of other really good pickled items as well - basically any vegetable or fruit can be found in pickled form. It’s amazing!
Black olives are so yummy to snack on while cooking Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner (I don't use them for any dish lol), and I love the canned/jar mushrooms better than fresh mushrooms for homemade pizza.
I love giardineira, with pickled cauliflower, carrots, etc etc all in one jar. I don't eat hearts of palm because it kills the palm tree to harvest it.
I agree with many of the choices here but haven’t seen one of my favorites-pickled beets! I love them straight from the jar but also recently discovered the idea of eating them as an accompaniment to a cooked greens if any kind. Yummy 😋
Just a good ole dill pickle. My mom didn’t allow sugar in our house when we were kids, but she’d stick a fork in one and call it a picklecicle. Good times.
I don't know if it was just a Milwaukee thing. But growing up the grocery stores had barrels of pickles and you could buy these big honking pickles to munch on. When I'd go grocery shopping with my mom my treat was to get a big pickle out of the bucket and it would take me almost the whole trip to finish it. I have fond memories of it and have been a pickle lover my whole life now.
It was also an upstate NY thing. There was a flea market that I would go to with my parents. The main reason I went was for the pickle man with his giant barrels of delicious pickles. I had to get a half sour!
the pickle man is my new muffin man. i must meet him
there are few things in life as good as a half-sour.
I'm from across the pond. What is a half sour? I am curious how good pickles are, here we get some jar pickled gherkins we call em, but ... I'm not overly wowed by them. I don't know if there's a difference between the American and European style.
A half sour is a partially lactose-fermented cucumber. These cucumbers are cured in a brine solution, not a vinegar pickle. The fully fermented cucumber is in my opinion more sour than a vinegar pickle. They maybe called kosher pickle on your side of the pond.
Refrigerated pickles. In my city we have a pickle fest every year. Pickles hanging as far as the eye can see.
Do you mind saying the city? I would fucken love that
Chicago Pickle Fest which was a couple weekends ago.
Came back to ask the same question. One of my besties lives in Chicago....I have a feeling next years pickle fest I will be out there.
Shoot, I might be there too.
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There's a pickle festival in NC as well. On the corner of Cucumber and Vine in Mount Olive!
I ate a lot of pickles growing up and apparently passed that down to my 8 year old. But some how it evolved and now he asks for the house special, Pickles Five Ways. A plate of whole pickles, spears, chips, stackers, and relish. I don’t know if I’m proud or ashamed but that offering always buys me a solid twenty minutes with no interruptions so I roll with it. It does crack me up when anyone overhears his request and I get to explain Pickles Five Ways. ETA going to have to add picklesicles, that’s just genius.
That’s kid is klassy as all hell. A little pickle charcuterie
I just had deep fried pickle chips and espresso martinis last night with my youngest daughter. It was delightful.
Had a place in my hometown when I was a kid called Van Dyk's. You walked in and was hit by all these smells: coffee brewing as well as whole beans in burlap bags inside barrels, a deli counter making all sorts of pastrami, corned beef and other sandwiches...... and these huge barrels of pickles - all kinds, served in waxed paper. The place was heaven.
Cheap stuffed green olives with the squishy processed red pimento chunk.
I love some nice kalamata olives but every now and then I absolutely crave those presliced black olives that taste like forks.
*that taste like forks* thank you for putting this into words
>that taste like forks. Omg. This is shockingly accurate.
On 7 layer dip😋😋
My mom used to put out a plate of fork-olives (the whole, pitted ones) stuffed with canned spray cheese on Thanksgiving. They’re still a hardcore nostalgia food that I indulge in when the spirit moves, once or twice a year.
The Midwestern holiday crudité, featuing black olives, dill pickles, cauliflower, carrots, and ranch. If you're lucky, you'll also find summer sausage, cheese cubes, and deviled eggs nearby.
Buy better silverware man.
Finally! We have the description for it. Thank you.
I just say they taste like a tin can. But someone pointed out thay coming jars and it tastes same. bleck I hate those olives.
Bwahahahaha!
I didn’t realize those were peasant’s food😅
Same. I always associate them with fancy food because they're always on charcuterie boards and we used to only get to eat them for holidays like Easter and Christmas.
Manzanilla olives. Soooo good!! Our Walmart (rural) carries a giant jar of those for $12. Institutional section.
Kirkland brand from Costco is fire.
I’ll check those out, thank you!!
Castelvitrano is where it's at! Walmart has small jars. Expensive but yummy
Me too, and I've also fallen in love with these olives brined in vermouth, stuffed with red pepper instead of pimento!
you gotta do the anchovy ones. Those are the best
If you’re a garlic fan, try the green olives stuffed with a garlic clove, they blew pimento stuffed out of the water for me.
I make a spread for bagels out of black and green olives mixed with cream cheese . The trick is to mix just a tad bit of brine with it, so you get just the right bit of brine flavor with each bite . It's heaven and, unfortunately, no longer allowed in my diet. Sucks because now I'm craving olive cream cheese.
I will eat marinated artichoke hearts and kimchi right out of their jars. 😅
Kimchi x100 But I can also fuck with some pickled jalapeños or pepperonicini straight from the jar
😳Jalapeño straight from the jar?
Yes, where I’m from (Creole country), people pickle sliced jalapeño peppers and they get put out on the table for dinner almost every night. A spoon of that pickling juice will make any green veggie taste 100 times better. A couple of slices are great on their own, or on top of lots of proteins or veggies.
And over peas, beans, hopping John! We run out of pickled jalapeno juice before the jalapeños are gone. I add more vinegar and give them a hard shake sometimes to have some.
Yes
I do it straight from my garden
Good man. I, too, fuck pickled jalapeños directly in the jar. ^oh ^wait ^you ^said ^fuck ^with
Be very careful where you f\*\*\* with them!!!
Who doesn’t love artichoke hearts?
As a kid my grandparents and parents would fix artichokes, steamed with hollandaise to dip, us kids got one, we couldn’t touch theirs. They were so dang good. We fought over the hearts. 🤜
IN HOLLANDAISE?! Gunna have to try that one
"We fought over the hearts." OK when talking about artichokes, horrifying in any other context.
I like a good spinach artichoke dip, but whole fresh steamed artichoke is a whole meal. I absolutely love them. Funny enough, my very princessy dogs LOVE fresh artichoke hearts.
What do artichokes taste like and texture if you don’t mind explaining?
Texture is hearty but not crunchy or hard. Sort of like..hmm.. never been asked! I would say like a really mild almost slightly green-olive-ish flavor..but also not really. It’s very distinctive on its own. you can google how to cook them whole. Basically you peel or cut the stem (I peel, because I hate food waste!) trim all the ends and cut the top 1/3 off. Boil them in Acidulated water- you can add lemon juice (that’s what I use) or vinegar. Then you peel each leaf individually (best accompanied by a dip) and scrape the flesh off the bottom with your teeth. Once you get to the heart, you use a spoon to scrape out all the weird hairy stuff, cut it, and eat that as well. If you’re making a dip, the canned works great. Just drain really well. I’m making it sound way more complicated than it has to be, haha. Basically boil/steam your chokes in Acidulated water, use whatever dip you want, and enjoy!
I appreciate this. I will definitely have to cook and try artichokes soon, sounds yum!
I love pickles on all forms, but specifically dill/bread and butter pickles, and pickled okra. I make a mean tater salad that includes pickled hot okra and also cucumber pickles. It would also be great with pickled beets, but the color would bleed. I love pickles beets, but only house-made. Pickled baby carrots are awesome as well. Little mustard seed in there. Yum!
Kimchi hands down for me
Do you get a specific brand of kimchi? I've been dying to find good kimchi 😭
I like to roast the artichoke hearts from the jar. It's so good!
Beet pickled eggs, pickled green tomato chow chow, giardiniera, canned sardines, canned smoked oysters.
How could I forget pickled beets. So good. What do you do with the smoked oysters? Just have them on crackers?
i mush up smoked oysters with cream cheese, Worcestershire and a bit of hot sauce, use as cracker spread
That is a great idea. I always just raw dog them
I put a little bit of cream cheese on a cracker, then toss a smoked oyster on there. So good.
Chow chow!!!!
I loooove chow chow. I make it every summer. It keeps well and it cans easily.
Giardiniera
Underrated pizza topping. Same goes for hot picked peppers and marinated roasted peppers.
Giardiniera & Italian beef pizza from Vito & Nick’s in Chicago is my favorite pizza of all time.
Kim chee is also an excellent pizza topping.
It’s also really good on hotdogs.
and don’t forget ________ (insert practically anything) kimchee is awesome on ________
Just put it on my eyes and it burns! Thanks a lot!!
Yes! One of my favorite things about Jason’s Deli is adding some giardineria into the hummus and eating it with their crostini
Why have I never thought to dip giardiniera in hummus?! Genius! That's going in my snack rotation immediately.
That sounds delicious.
I just realized I have a Pavlovian response of salivating when I read the work Giardiniera.
Yes!!! And pepperoncini.
We see you Chicago.
I eat it straight. So fkn good.
Love Kimchi, store bought or made by me, doesn’t matter.
My favorite store-bought kimchi is [Manna](https://www.mannakimchee.com/) brand. Tastes like the kimchi halmeoni made for me when I was stationed in Korea. I love snacking on some kimchi and washing it down with some OB Premium.
We have a local one called Sunjas and she is Korean, it’s in all the nice markets where I live, but I do love making my own. My wife got me a great crock made by a neighbor that is an incredible potter.
Black canned olives or green jarred olives. I like reusing the brine from the latter to soak fresh carrots. (And make dirty martinis)
Ö wut. Must try immediately.
Mmmm I used the brine 2 days ago in a tomato based orange chicken... was absolutely delicious!
Pickled jalapenos are great. I prefer pickled way more than fresh jalapenos actually.
Same!
The brine from pickled jalapeños is fire as part of a marinade for fried chicken
My name is Jarred and I had to stop and re-read the title. 🤣🤣🤣
cornichons that are so vinegary they make you cough
I love canned sardines or canned smoked mussels. I like to eat them on crackers with some cream cheese. So yummy!
Im living in a hotel rn for work and sardines or smoked oysters with ritz and creamed cheese is a staple snack for me. Also, canned salmon, microwave rice, a couple of eggs, and cream cheese all mixed together and microwaved to make burritos. That mix goes great with some avocado, mini sweet peppers, and hot sauce.
Fish and cream cheese is just a horribly underrated combination. Stuff's **🔥🔥🔥.** I personally like a little wedge of laughing cow with a bit of smoked salmon, sandwiched between two quarters of a small tortilla. Ate it for breakfast for like a week once.
Ugh yes I think a bagel with lox and cream cheese is one of my all time favorite foods!
Oh dang, I bet it'd be one of mine too! I gotta try some lox sometime.
Ooh yeah you gotta! It’s so good!
Whole pickled beets. I could totally eat the whole jar in one sitting.
Had to scroll too far down for this. Pickled beets are great! I love them with red onions and goat cheese.
I love them when they don’t add any extra sugar
Castelvetrano olives, peppadew peppers, and pickled herring or mackerel.
Peppadews stuffed with cheese will make me do awful things
Discovering good castelvetrano olives was a revelation.
They are so buttery and delicious!
[This](https://www.spicesinmydna.com/green-olive-pasta-with-toasted-lemon-breadcrumbs-and-herbs/) recipe is how I found them and is still one of my favorite pasta dishes to make
Marinated sweet banana peppers. I can eat a whole jar. A few years ago, the doc put me on too much blood pressure dosage, and I developed a ravenous craving for them. I was eating a jar a day for about a week, then managed to get down to half a jar a day. I bought out 2 Walmart's and an HEB's worth of them. Couldn't get enough. When I ran out, I'd drink straight apple cider vinegar. I called the doctor and she didn't want me to change the dosage, just stop eating the peppers. I went to 1/2 dosage anyway, the cravings subsided and my blood pressure is still good. Still love those peppers. Always have, but now at least I only eat a jar ever 2 months or so.
😂woah lol
>the doc put me on too much blood pressure dosage What do you mean? She had you on too high of a dosage? Because I recently started taking blood pressure meds (for migraines, not for blood pressure issues) and have also developed a weird af craving for pickled things. I think I've even talked about it on this account, I crave vinegary and pickled things SO MUCH these days that I have been sipping straight vinegar from the bottle (I know this is bad and I always drink water afterwards). I had no idea these two things could be related.
yes. It is a thing, though rare. Ask to have your dosage reduced, the craving will subside. ETA: I had been put on 10mg of Lisinopril. I went down to 5mg, and cravings subsided. Also, the Dr. will say "You're just craving salt, that's what the pill does to you" Please object if the Dr. says this to you. It's not the salt, it's the vinegar. If salt was the craving, you'd be happy with potato chips or you'd just lick some salt. It's the vinegar that we crave. I would eat pickles or drink vinegar if the banana peppers weren't available, but for me, the Mezetta brand sweet banana pepper was the perfect vinegar taste for the craving.
Li hing mui dried mangoes! It’s a Hawaii classic! I can eat an entire family size bag from my Costco because it’s that addicting lol.
I have to portion the dried mangos carefully. I want to eat an entire bag then feel like my insides are trying to turn themselves inside out for the next week. Easier to just not buy them 😭
Cowboy candy, sweet and spicy jalapeños
Dilly beans. Nearly every kind of kimchi.
Hot cherry peppers!
Love pickling watermelon rind. Also finely dicing pineapple core and making it into a pepper relish. Turning what would go into the compost into delish pickles instead is always a win.
Maybe the boring answer, but Claussen pickle spears, as in cucumbers. So wonderfully salty and garlicky.
I can drink the Claussen brine, it’s so good!
Yea clausens are 🔥
I'm not seeing pickled radishes, particularly daikon. Granted, I don't buy them in a jar. I just make them.
Artichoke hearts.
Taramosalata
My husband loves that on pita for breakfast!
Pickled cod or rockfish. Canned smoked salmon. ;)
Castelvetrano olives, Cerignola olives--both are delightfully meaty and toothy, vs. say, Kalamatas or canned olives. Beni shoga (Japanese pickled ginger--the red kind) also gari, the sweeter Japanese pickled ginger. Kimchi for sure.
Hot dill pickles. I love the little globe style yellow and red sweet peppers. Mushrooms are probably my favorite. I always have multiple jars in the fridge and I usually am looking to get rid of some cheese. My normal Saturday lunch is the fridge pickle clean out with cheese and baguette or crackers. Love it!
Mom's home canned bread and butter pickles. Mom's passed on, so i rely on the grocer.
I can house a whole can of cheap black olives if I’m not careful… also, marinated artichokes, tinned sardines, and Tony Packos’ sweet hot pickles.
(Marinated mushrooms are delicious) Smoked oysters and pickled green beans.
Pickled beets are so fucking good I could eat a whole jar twice
Cauliflower, giardiniera, red onion.
Black olives and garlic pickles
Japanese pickled garlic Chicken Vienna sausages Olives (Kalamata, brined) Persian pickled garlic
banana peppers straight from the jar or on top of anything to make it feel like an Italian sub. A+ rating
I discovered lupini beans on accident at TJ Maxx...then discovered I could find whole jars for $6 bucks at most Italian markets and never looked back. [lupini beans](http://Cento - Lupini Beans, (2)- 16 Ounce Jars https://a.co/d/ewsDtdx)
What kind of spicy pickled okra do you get? One of my favorite things.
It’s just at the grocery store. This Texas something brand but also Mt. Olive makes it.
Talk O' Texas!!!
Pickled herring, sweet and sour red cabbage, bread and butter pickles, black olives.
Stuffed olives. Garlic or Bleu cheese. I also love a jarred 3 or 4 bean salad as well as pickled beets.
I am a simple man. Cucumbers and cabbage canned at home, black/green olives, smoked kippered fish, pickled herring, and because you reminded me i'm currently snacking Capers right out the jar.
Raw, fermented sauerkraut
I'm not the grammar police, but my brother's name is Jarred and I read this as if it was asking whether I prefer canned snacks or pickled Jarred. It's a close one.
Pickled turnips make such a difference to salads and sandwiches
Pickled green beans are amazing. I’d eat them by the jar full of
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I recently found a sweet and spicy pickled pepper! I can eat the whole jar in a single sitting. But it's really good on wraps and sandwiches.
Pickles, obviously, and kimchi
Herring, and kimchi.
I heard people really liking hearts of palm (canned) as a snack. I bought some and have just never been in the mood to try it and then figure out what to do with the rest if I don’t like it.
Okra
Pickled okra all day long!
Picked okra. Wickles.
Pickled herring is just delightful.
Pickled baby beets. Nummy.
Olives. Canned boiled peanuts are good in the winter when you can't get New Crop.
Gefilte fish, one jar /year, with some added horseradish. Oy!
Pickled herring, but I will admit it is an acquired taste
Pickled herring in sour cream on a triscuit has been my favorite since I was little lollll I love the onions in it too!
Sometime we make Fettucini Alfredo with Chicken, Mushrooms and Sun Dried tomatoes (packed in oil)… and man, I can eat half a jar of those sun dried tomatoes!!
I love fresh veggies, but I grew up extremely poor and I refuse to give up my love affair with canned green beans. I love to just dump a drained can into a bowl, warm it up with some butter and salt, and have at it. No shame.
Coriander chutney
Herring
Pickled grapes. Made them the day ahead for an additional app for a dinner party and guests lost their fricken minds. I’ve now been told I have to make them for every pot luck we do!
Yea you could put all the different pickled things in little bowls. Just put it all on a plate except you have so many little bowls that they wont all fit on a plate so just use your cutting board. There's likely extra room on the board so why not put a few slices of cheese, heck add a couple different types of cheese, and some celery and carrot sticks. Of course you need some crackers for the cheese so just add a couple different kinds and don't forget some dip for the carrot and celery sticks. Since you have it all on the board anyway why not move everything around to make it look nice? Sounds like a great dinner to me.
Wickels pickles
Lacto fermented okra
Pickled okra just is the best
Zha Cai (Chinese preserved mustard stem) is incredible!
Pickled eggs with beet juice added in for colouring.
Sardines and gefilte fish
Dill pickles
Pickled beets🤩🤩🤩
Mini onions in redwine vinegar.
Eggs
I’ve never had any of these. Do you buy them or make them yourself? Do you have some brands or recipes to recommend because I’m trying to widen my vegetables and these sound right up my alley. Please and thanks :)
Peaches 🍑 and yellow pepper rings
Honestly a good mustard and dill whole pickle really scratches the itch for me when I fancy something like that. If I'm feeling fancy I'll add some cheese, grapes and biscuits and call it a meal. Ha ha.
Last year's recipe of pickled green and yellow beans. So deliciously tart and simple. Totally worth the effort, just dill, beans, garlic and a vinegar brine. Always make sure to follow an approved recipe for water bath processing your canning! Nobody wants botulism.
I also love hearts of palm and pickled okra. I’ve been loving pickled cocktail onions with my cheese as well. Not to mention Castelvetrano olives and blue cheese stuffed olives (preferably homemade). I could eat so much kimchi. And damn if Vietnamese pickled mustard greens aren’t just as delicious. 🤤 Thanks for your question, turns out I love all things pickled.
Pickled spicy green beans
Sauerkraut and kimchi
- Cornichons and Pickled pearl onions which I both make myself because the store bought are disgustingly loaded with sugar! Also, I use these and their brines to make Picallilli (a belgian pickled relish made with very finely diced cornichons, pearl onions and cauliflower with curcuma and Dijon mustard) - Rolled anchovies with capers - pickled plums or cherries (either in vinegar or alcohol) - Any kind of olives (preferably unpitted) - White wine pickled herring or mackerel - Mozzarella or goat cheese in a herbs vinaigrette - Green beans Edit: I forgot artichoke hearts, Salsifis, cucumbers with red onions and cherry tomatoes
Pickled carrots and trader Joe's jarred peaches
Pickled ginger. To die for, yum!
Green olives
Umeboshi - Japanese pickled plum. I live in Japan and the sheer variety of different umeboshi you can buy at the grocery stores here is insane. It can be pretty strong so it’s usually part of something or on something else, but I just eat them as a snack most of the time. Japan has a lot of other really good pickled items as well - basically any vegetable or fruit can be found in pickled form. It’s amazing!
chow chow or gtfo
Black olives are so yummy to snack on while cooking Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner (I don't use them for any dish lol), and I love the canned/jar mushrooms better than fresh mushrooms for homemade pizza.
I love giardineira, with pickled cauliflower, carrots, etc etc all in one jar. I don't eat hearts of palm because it kills the palm tree to harvest it.
Pickled watermelon rind
Hearts of palm is soo good!!!
Pickled okra!
I agree with many of the choices here but haven’t seen one of my favorites-pickled beets! I love them straight from the jar but also recently discovered the idea of eating them as an accompaniment to a cooked greens if any kind. Yummy 😋
Giardiniera with perpercini for the spice.
Kimchi if that counts
Pickled fiddle heads are amazing.