# Pickle lovers, let's talk.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 12, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickle-lovers-lets-talk/798645 "2017-10-12T15:20:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickle-lovers-lets-talk/798645/81 "2017-10-20T16:36:59Z")

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Also, if you look on the shelves of any of these Polish stores, you should also be able to find commercial versions of brined pickles. Just look out for _ogórki kiszone_ or _ogórki kwaszone_, though many of the brands will have “pickles/cucumbers in brine” written on the jar. Plus you can tell by the hazy liquid that it’s fermented pickles. Unfortunately, I have no particular brands to recommend, as I always get my pickles either from the bulk/barrel section at Shop and Save, or from one of my mom’s friends.

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**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickle-lovers-lets-talk/798645/82 "2017-10-20T19:05:56Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I always get my pickles either from the bulk/barrel section at Shop and Save, or from one of my mom’s friends.

There’s a joke great dirty joke in there somewhere but I won’t be the one to make it 😛

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**Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickle-lovers-lets-talk/798645/83 "2017-10-21T14:43:27Z")

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> [@Clark\_Cello](#):
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> You obviously do not live in the South. 🙂

No kidding. Fried pickles are on the menu of every non-fast-food BBQ or burger joint or beer pub in my town, I think. With varying results of deliciousness.

I don’t live near any Eastern European groceries, as far as I know. So Claussen’s is our go-to; they’re crunchy and reasonably good. Mt. Olive is pretty awful; when they were being boycotted, I was a little disappointed I couldn’t join in, because I never bought their shitty pickles anyway.

We regularly make the Moosewood Cookbook’s pickled onions, something like this:  
-Slice a bunch of red onions as into paper-thin rings.  
-Pour a bunch of boiling water over them.  
-Meanwhile mix up some vinegar, some salt, some brown sugar, and some peppercorns, and add some garlic if you want (although it’ll turn weird and purplish-blue).  
-Dump the wilted onion rings into a jar of the brine.  
-Eat within a few weeks.

They taste like some sort of wonderful fruit, and are phenomenal on sandwiches, in salads, and straight from the jar.

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