An Open Letter To Vlasic

Screw you.

2 out of the last 4 times I’ve bought your tasty sweet pickles I’ve mistakenly purchased the vile tasting “No Sugar Added” version. You package them in identical jars with identical labels save the subtle grey script labeling them as inedible, er… no sugar added.

Please rectify this situation immediately or I will be forced to avoid your product for my own safety and sanity. The substandard Mt Olive brand will have to suffice.

[sub]Yup, mundane indeed.[/sub]

They pissed me off when they quit selling those ginormous Stackers, where you only got like 5 to the jar, but they easily covered the entire top of your burger.

It’s people like you that encourage restaurants to soil every plate with a bloody dill spear with callous disregard for the innocent fries which leech in that gag-inducing dill juice.

Your problem is that you are buying gag sweet pickles. Pickles of Satan, those are.

Though I agree with you, Omnicient – I don’t like even dills under those circumstances either.

Sweet pickles. Bleah.

Sing it man!

Gah! has there ever been a palatable sweet pickle?

I think not. I wouldn’t even no what “no sugar added” might do to the flavor, I can only imagine it would improve it.

Sweet pickles…yum!

All you dill lovers can take your koshers and…well, eat them. Preferably somewhere away from me. I’d rather munch on a nice gherkin, or nosh on some Bread and Butter chips.

:confused: What’s substandard about it?

I agree with you. I am a very adventurous eater and sweet pickles combine flavors that do not go together. I believe that the people that like them have something like a taste color blindness. Maybe Vlasic feels guilty about that and is trying to piss people off well enough so that they can stop making them.

You, sir, are to the culinary world what Time Cube is to the scientific. Pickled cucumbers in any form are near divine.

I bought a jar of my favorite uncooked kosher dills today and somehow the lid popped loose on the way home, leaking pickle juice all over my back seat and a couple library books :(. I called the pickle people and they’re sending me a coupon for a new jar, but they “advise me not to consume them” and I wanted pickles tonight, damnit! They’re probably okay… right?

Sure, it’s not like the library books contaminated them, eh?

I feel bad about the books, even though it’s not really my fault. I wouldn’t mind paying to replace them though; at least I’d be giving money to the library and I get to keep a couple really neat (albeit pickle-scented) books to boot.

The flavor of course!

But ask yourself, Sir, what is a five inch pickle made from, spaghetti squash?

Sweet pickles forever!

Did the pickles come out of the jar? If not, you’re fine to eat 'em, IMO.

Then again, I grew up on pickles that were made with the leftover brine from the store-bought pickles. Mmmmmmm, nothing like a half-pickle.

They’re made from awesome, that’s what they’re made from.

In a pinch you can use the long sandwich pickles on your burger, but they hang weirdly out of the burger.

I love a Vlasic pickle. I’m fixin’ to make Rouladin (prolly Saturday) and they are a key ingredient in the Germanosity that is the Rouladin. I so rock.

Seriously, what do they do to a cucumber to make it that large, Miracle Grow ™, cosmic rays, sex hormones?
If I may plagiarize a username, Come to the Dark Side, we have Watermelon pickles. .

I don’t know. I wondered that myself. I hoped it was just freaky naturally giant cucumbers and not freaky altered ones.

I assumed the were injection molded from a mixture pureed cucumber and yak semen.