Anyone else have the bread & butter pickle jones?

Yeah, pull the other leg, matey. I know you can cook..

But I think my favorite sweet pickle is watermelon pickles. My mother used to make them and they were a real treat.

Amen Howie they are great. We have a small country 'cafe/bakery/farm' near us that makes and sells watermelon pickles. Cant get enough of them !!

I never have cared for sweet pickles of any kind. Give me kosher dills or a hot mix, and I'm happy.

For all that I don't eat sweets that much, I've almost never met a sweet pickle I didn't like and I'm particularly enamored with the version called bread and butter pickles. The best I ever had were something we'd get one precious jar of a year when I was a kid, it was from Knotts Berry Farm and would come with an assortment of syrups and jams my father would get from a client for Christmas. They were bright yellow from turmeric and had lots of onions swimming among the cucumbers, and were spicier/better than any of the store-bought brands though I certainly didn't turn my nose up at those.

Sweet pickles are to me what candy and chocolate are to others. It's the sweet food I can't resist, the food that's not safe around me, the thing I must occasionally gorge on. They're vegetable crack. Two or three times a year, though Mrs. Knott's pickles have long since left the planet, I break down and buy a jar of a commercial brand. Fannings (or is it Mrs. Fannings) is the better of what's available in my area. I'll finish a pint jar in a day, a half gallon in a week.

So last week when I was at Trader Joe's and saw that they have their own brand of bread and butter pickles I, of course, couldn't help myself. And these are GOOD!!!! Probably the best since the Knotts Berry Farm days. Less sweet than the commercial brands but just sweet enough, very spicy, with some onions in the jar, and quite crunchy. No turmeric, but no yellow dye pretending to the look either. Really, really delicious. I've almost killed the entire jar already and when I go into town today, I'll buy another. Heck, maybe two. Don't want to run out.

Anyway, if there are any other sweet pickle fiends among this crowd, and you've not discovered yet the wonder of the Trader Joe's bread and butter pickle, I can't reccomend these highly enough.

You dont like Bubblies ?

I am indeed a real fan of bread 'n buttah pickles, too, but for some odd reason they are all tasting too sweet lately ... even those from TJ's. I get I'm just in a phase.

[Jenise]

You dont like Bubblies ?

Or is it Bubbies? No, actually, I don't. I especially don't like their kosher pickles, which at a store I used to shop in So Cal replaced a kosher brand I did like and could occasionally get jars of still-bright-green new pickles from occasionally. I never forgave them!

I've never met a sweet pickle that I liked. Give me kosher dill or hot any time, and I'll be happy.

Robert, have you ever had a mustard pickle? My mom made them and they (if like hers) are worth going to war for.

I've never met a sweet pickle that I liked. Give me kosher dill or hot any time, and I'll be happy.

Robert, have you ever had a mustard pickle? My mom made them and they (if like hers) are worth going to war for.

I used to get Senfgurken or mustard pickles in Germany. They were always peeled and marinated in cider vinegar, mustard seed, horse radish, a little sugar and some other stuff. They were out of this world. Same stuff, Bob?

I used to get Senfgurken or mustard pickles in Germany. They were always peeled and marinated in cider vinegar, mustard seed, horse radish, a little sugar and some other stuff. They were out of this world. Same stuff, Bob?

Gary, IIRC my Mom used prepared mustard in her mustard pickles. I believe she did use some grated horseradish too. We always grew a patch of it. Dad was full blood German and could hardly have lived without horseradish.

I used to get Senfgurken or mustard pickles in Germany. They were always peeled and marinated in cider vinegar, mustard seed, horse radish, a little sugar and some other stuff. They were out of this world. Same stuff, Bob?

Gary, IIRC my Mom used prepared mustard in her mustard pickles. I believe she did use some grated horseradish too. We always grew a patch of it. Dad was full blood German and could hardly have lived without horseradish.

I'm full blood Italian and can't live without horseradish either.

You aren't pregnant, are you?

Hee hee!

Jenise, that sounds like you're not even trying!!!