Topic: SWEET GHERKIN (Read 8193 times)

Michael · « **Reply #30 on:** June 30, 2014, 07:30:30 AM »

TOD

I like full sour pickles otherwise they are still cucumbers to me.

Ginny · « **Reply #31 on:** June 30, 2014, 07:47:18 AM »

TOD - the bread 'n' butter pickles that my mother used to make using a recipe from her friend Sue. I have that recipe, in Sue's handwriting, and Richard and I have used it to make pickles several times. We were just talking about making some after we get Rob and Mary Linda settled in. Those pickles are great on burgers and meat loaf sandwiches!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** June 30, 2014, 08:17:22 AM »

TOD:

I really love some pickles and am "eh" about many others.

Sadly, I don't think I've ever had a homemade pickle in my life! For store brands, I long ago gravitated to the Claussen type refrigerated ones for the most part.

Does "gherkins" refer to the dark sweet pickles? Those were a childhood staple but I find them uninteresting now. Same with regular old dill or "kosher dill", though I find dill chips are the proper thing for burgers.

Claussen's garlic slices are a favorite, for eating by themselves or adding to various cold cut sandwiches.

I'll buy any tub of half sours that looks like it'll live up to the kind of deli pickle I'm most crazy about (I do love it when you can tell they actually started life as a cucumber, and usually eat all of those out of the bowl at a deli before anyone else has a chance at them).

Pickle relish is something I tend to ignore, except in combination with other things to make a hot dog taste more like a Chicago dog.

Bread 'n' butter pickles have always been a special treat, going back to childhood, and I will gobble up any pile of those you set in front of me. I'm not sure I even get around to adding them to anything.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #33 on:** June 30, 2014, 08:26:54 AM »

Dill pickles.....most notably what is called locally Hamburger Dill Slices....sometimes they are cut lengthwise which makes them great for sandwiches.....I usually buy the Great Value store brand, but if there is a sale I get a national brand.....

John G. · « **Reply #34 on:** June 30, 2014, 08:46:11 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 30, 2014, 06:15:26 AM

J.K. Rowling's second Cormoran Strike detective novel, The Silkworm, has been published.

Don't know if the first printings will go crazy in price like the first one did, since now the cat is out of the bag as to who "Robert Galbraith" is.

I have the CDs reserved. I thought the first one good, but occasionally overlong and overwritten.

John G. · « **Reply #35 on:** June 30, 2014, 08:47:24 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 30, 2014, 08:17:22 AM

TOD:

I really love some pickles and am "eh" about many others.

Sadly, I don't think I've ever had a homemade pickle in my life! For store brands, I long ago gravitated to the Claussen type refrigerated ones for the most part.

Does "gherkins" refer to the dark sweet pickles? Those were a childhood staple but I find them uninteresting now. Same with regular old dill or "kosher dill", though I find dill chips are the proper thing for burgers.

Claussen's garlic slices are a favorite, for eating by themselves or adding to various cold cut sandwiches.

I'll buy any tub of half sours that looks like it'll live up to the kind of deli pickle I'm most crazy about (I do love it when you can tell they actually started life as a cucumber, and usually eat all of those out of the bowl at a deli before anyone else has a chance at them).

Pickle relish is something I tend to ignore, except in combination with other things to make a hot dog taste more like a Chicago dog.

Bread 'n' butter pickles have always been a special treat, going back to childhood, and I will gobble up any pile of those you set in front of me. I'm not sure I even get around to adding them to anything.

I think Mom's bread and butter pickles are her best. They're a little sweet for me now that I'm diabetic, but I will break down every once in a while and have some. I need to make sure I have that recipe from her.

Ginny · « **Reply #36 on:** June 30, 2014, 08:55:44 AM »

Simultaneously, I finished my 30-minute basement walk and listening to the audio version of THE BOOK THIEF. It's one of those books that I'm not sure I'd have gotten through reading with my eyes, but the audio version kept my interest. Now, I'm looking forward to discussing it and watching the movie with my book group in August.

Jane · « **Reply #37 on:** June 30, 2014, 08:58:27 AM »

DR Singdaw I have a friend who not only could use the back seat driver's license she should receive an award for the "best" back seat driver.

Jane · « **Reply #38 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:01:41 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 30, 2014, 04:17:11 AM

Have you ever wondered what happens when you crack an egg underwater?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96_CMfzvImE

Never-lol

Jane · « **Reply #39 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:01:53 AM »

Congratulations to Skip!

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:12:38 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on June 30, 2014, 08:55:44 AM

Simultaneously, I finished my 30-minute basement walk and listening to the audio version of THE BOOK THIEF. It's one of those books that I'm not sure I'd have gotten through reading with my eyes, but the audio version kept my interest. Now, I'm looking forward to discussing it and watching the movie with my book group in August.

I'm still waiting to see the movie. But like you, I listened to it on audio and really got into it.

John G. · « **Reply #41 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:13:01 AM »

Quote from: Jane on June 30, 2014, 09:01:53 AM

Congratulations to Skip!

Indeed. Wish I could see the production.

Jane · « **Reply #42 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:27:08 AM »

Growing up every deli, that I went to, automatically put a dish of Kosher Dill Pickles on the table. They were half New & half well done. I learned early on to ask for all New pickles. This was the same as we moved around the country, if there was a deli. In a couple of states we lived in there were specialty markets that had big barrels of Kosher Dills where I could pick out a nice big New pickle-yum.

In recent years I often have to ask for pickles and even worse, they don't have or know what a New pickle is. Thank you DR Chas for explaining that a Half Sour is the same as a New pickle. Maybe that will help in the future. Even in LA it seems I have to go to Nate 'B Al's to find one.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #43 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:30:14 AM »

I hope I was right about that. I didn't know the term "new" or "well done" as applied to pickles, so I'm learning stuff right here.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #44 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:31:44 AM »

If "half sour" = "new", then does "full sour" = "well done"?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #45 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:31:58 AM »

I'm getting hungry.

singdaw · « **Reply #46 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:52:11 AM »

For pickles, no doubt.

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:53:07 AM »

I'm up, I'm up - couldn't fall asleep last night until about four.

singdaw · « **Reply #48 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:53:41 AM »

Quote from: Elan on June 30, 2014, 06:24:44 AM

Back in the day, though, I used to pick up spicy pickles from Gus's on the Lower East Side

Loved going there!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:54:27 AM »

And I am home from therapy. Morgan has given me a new, particularly painful stretching exercise for my ankles. I think I will rake a nap and get to work.

My mother's sister Lois made a very sweet pickle, which was okay, but I prefer dill. My dad's mother in Appalachia pickled eggs, which terrified me, beans and corn, which I loved.

Jane · « **Reply #50 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:54:36 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 30, 2014, 09:31:44 AM

If "half sour" = "new", then does "full sour" = "well done"?

Beats me. I made up the "well done". I've never heard those called anything, but then I only wanted the new ones.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #51 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:55:11 AM »

DR slingshot, thanks for the sherpa offer!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #52 on:** June 30, 2014, 09:58:14 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on June 30, 2014, 09:53:41 AM

Quote from: Elan on June 30, 2014, 06:24:44 AM
Back in the day, though, I used to pick up spicy pickles from Gus's on the Lower East Side

Loved going there!

Is that the place depicted in CROSSING DELANCEY -- or that it was based on?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:03:19 AM »

BK, thank you for the trip down memory lane re DisConnection and its proximity to the Mann Westwood.

To this day, I still can't remember whether I saw NUDIE at the Mann or the Fox. I do like keeping those dots connected when possible, so it bothers me when I come up with one that I just can't place properly.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #54 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:05:36 AM »

I'm betting on Westwood. I'd been living in Beverly Hills for about a year and was probably going to Westwood for movies more often than Hollywood.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #55 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:26:35 AM »

New pickles.

Congrats to SKIP on his Philly production!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #56 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:40:08 AM »

I had trouble sleeping last night, too. Had to sit in my living room chair with the A/C on from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Bedroom was tolerable by then, but it was still a bit warm-ish.

HATE hot weather.

bk · « **Reply #57 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:48:47 AM »

So, when you accept a "friend" request on Facebook the default is you're FOLLOWING them??? No wonder I see all this crap on my newsfeed that makes me NEVER want to go to Facebook. Now I'm going to systematically unfollow everyone but a handful of folks. One guy who I recently accepted does nothing but post obnoxious stories (you know the kind - "You won't believe what happened next") from The Blaze - I just unfollowed him, but I'll also probably unfriend him, too.

singdaw · « **Reply #58 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:50:06 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on June 30, 2014, 09:58:14 AM

Is that the place depicted in CROSSING DELANCEY -- or that it was based on?

I've never seen the film, so I couldn't say. But I wouldn't be surprised.

singdaw · « **Reply #59 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:51:08 AM »

~ ~ ~ SUPER-STRONG SLEEP VIBES ~ ~ ~ for bk and all DRs as needs 'em!!!!!

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