Randomguy Posted January 4, 2020 Share #1 Posted January 4, 2020 I like pickles and have wanted real pickles (the old-fashioned fermented kind), but they are almost impossible to find out and about. I like new pickles or half sours, but even the artisan pickle people around here seem to make them the fast way. Anyway, I bought some pickles at Trader Joe's last night. They are half-sour probiotic and fermented and they are pretty good and from the Sonoma Brinery. Wouldn't you think someone would fill the void closer to the east coast? They weren't expensive, but I imagine shipping them this way would have cost a small fortune. Discus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Airehead Posted January 4, 2020 Share #3 Posted January 4, 2020 Can’t you get real pickles at the kosher deli in a big bin? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #4 Posted January 4, 2020 16 minutes ago, Randomguy said: I like pickles and have wanted real pickles (the old-fashioned fermented kind), but they are almost impossible to find out and about. I like new pickles or half sours, but even the artisan pickle people around here seem to make them the fast way. Anyway, I bought some pickles at Trader Joe's last night. They are half-sour probiotic and fermented and they are pretty good and from the Sonoma Brinery. Wouldn't you think someone would fill the void closer to the east coast? They weren't expensive, but I imagine shipping them this way would have cost a small fortune. Discus. Pickle them where they grow. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #5 Posted January 4, 2020 I made pickles in 2019, the day before my cardiologist told me not to eat pickles. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
late Posted January 4, 2020 Share #6 Posted January 4, 2020 Over the course of the winter, buy cukes and try several different pickle recipes. Grow a bunch of cukes, put them up, they'll make good Xmas presents as well. I haven't seen a pickle barrel around here for a very long time. Although there is one deli that has pretty good pickles. You could also sell them. I even have an ad slogan for you: You'll love a long hard one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #7 Posted January 4, 2020 Are they cold or on the shelf? Those Vlasic on the shelf are crrrap! We only buy the cold claussen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 4, 2020 Share #8 Posted January 4, 2020 NYC must have some local markets where people offer them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #9 Posted January 4, 2020 1 minute ago, shootingstar said: NYC must have some local markets where people offer them.. But Trader Joe’s are probably much more budget friendly. Worth a look though. Zabars olive bar is pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share #10 Posted January 4, 2020 13 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: But Trader Joe’s are probably much more budget friendly. Worth a look though. Zabars olive bar is pretty impressive. Zabars is nice, I used to live really close by. TJ's is much more budget friendly, you are right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #11 Posted January 4, 2020 11 minutes ago, Randomguy said: Zabars is nice, I used to live really close by. TJ's is much more budget friendly, you are right. So I get that confused with this! Very interesting. My wife's fambly has eaten there back in the day. https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/gallery/historical/a-look-back-at-zaberers-restaurant/collection_c608a9ea-2445-11e6-bb03-7b553a47fb0a.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 4, 2020 Share #12 Posted January 4, 2020 I believe the demise of pickle factories was due to the invention of the motorcycle. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #13 Posted January 4, 2020 4 hours ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said: So I get that confused with this! Very interesting. My wife's fambly has eaten there back in the day. https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/gallery/historical/a-look-back-at-zaberers-restaurant/collection_c608a9ea-2445-11e6-bb03-7b553a47fb0a.html Those were the good old days. "United We Stand". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted January 4, 2020 Share #14 Posted January 4, 2020 6 hours ago, Randomguy said: Worst pic of RO we've ever seen. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 4, 2020 Share #15 Posted January 4, 2020 The uncooked, very crisp, always-refrigerated Clausen dill spears work for me. Clausen is headquartered in Illinois but I don't know where they get their cucumbers. Nor do I care. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted January 5, 2020 Share #16 Posted January 5, 2020 1 hour ago, MickinMD said: The uncooked, very crisp, always-refrigerated Clausen dill spears work for me. Clausen is headquartered in Illinois but I don't know where they get their cucumbers. Nor do I care. Prolly from China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted January 5, 2020 Share #17 Posted January 5, 2020 Guys at work are very proud of their pickling ability. They bring in pickled everything to share and compare, most are willing to share recipes. They are all of the quick variety. Not sure I've ever had a fermented pickle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 5, 2020 Share #18 Posted January 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, Further said: Guys at work are very proud of their pickling ability. They bring in pickled everything to share and compare, most are willing to share recipes. They are all of the quick variety. Not sure I've ever had a fermented pickle I really miss a real Italian antipasto with pickled veggies. Too often pizza places make crappy antipasto with very simple ingredients like cold cuts and black olives, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 5, 2020 Share #19 Posted January 5, 2020 9 hours ago, Randomguy said: Why did my pickles have to come from California? I like pickles and have wanted real pickles (the old-fashioned fermented kind), but they are almost impossible to find out and about. I like new pickles or half sours, but even the artisan pickle people around here seem to make them the fast way. Anyway, I bought some pickles at Trader Joe's last night. They are half-sour probiotic and fermented and they are pretty good and from the Sonoma Brinery. Wouldn't you think someone would fill the void closer to the east coast? They weren't expensive, but I imagine shipping them this way would have cost a small fortune. Discus. ...mostly for the same reasons much of your other produce comes from California. We have economies of scale and season here that makes it one of the best places in the United States to produce massive amounts of vegetable produce, like cukes, very competitively in price. The processing usually happens pretty close to the growing areas, so they stuff (tomatoes, cukes, whatever) can be trucked in and dumped into receiving hoppers. Quote The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a great followup to recent news that a Steinfeld's pickle plant in North Portland would close. It's not just the pickle plant that's gone. So are the cucumbers from Northwest farmers. Even though labels still tout the brand's Northwest roots. Here's an illustration for the P.I. story that pretty much says it all. 3 states produced 76 percent of U.S. veggies in 2017 Quote Pickles are not a food in and of themselves. Pickles are made from cucumbers. California and Wisconsin lead in pickle production. Michigan and North Carolina are leading states in commercial cucumber production. https://www.answers.com/Q/What_states_produces_the_most_pickles Surprisingly, China produces 54 million tonnes of cucumbers annually, to our pitiful 3/4 million tonnes. I did not know that until I googled it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share #20 Posted January 5, 2020 20 minutes ago, Page Turner said: ...mostly for the same reasons much of your other produce comes from California. We have economies of scale and season here that makes it one of the best places in the United States to produce massive amounts of vegetable produce, like cukes, very competitively in price. The processing usually happens pretty close to the growing areas, so they stuff (tomatoes, cukes, whatever) can be trucked in and dumped into receiving hoppers. 3 states produced 76 percent of U.S. veggies in 2017 Surprisingly, China produces 54 million tonnes of cucumbers annually, to our pitiful 3/4 million tonnes. I did not know that until I googled it. None of that matters, though, any hillbilly can make pickles and there are plenty of farms growing cucumbers out here. It is just that the locals refused to look at demand and decided to focus on what they wanted to supply instead. Hicks are myopic, oftentimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Karen_Cooper_Incident Posted January 5, 2020 Share #21 Posted January 5, 2020 Hey RG, I have a pickle for you. Mudkipz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 5, 2020 Share #22 Posted January 5, 2020 ...when my second ex-wife (the one from Wisconsin) was a kid, her father used to plant about 1/4 acre in cukes to sell to the local pickling plant there. It's pretty labor intensive, because for the pickled gherkins, they need to be of a certain small size, so you need to go out there and pick just the ones that are the right size at he proper time. She had like 8 brothers and sisters, so they had a solid picking crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 5, 2020 Share #23 Posted January 5, 2020 12 hours ago, Further said: Guys at work are very proud of their pickling ability. They bring in pickled everything to share and compare, most are willing to share recipes. They are all of the quick variety. Not sure I've ever had a fermented pickle Bittman has a few recipes with quick pickling in them in the food matters cookbook. I’ll probably give that a shot today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share #24 Posted January 5, 2020 It turns out that my sauerkraut came from California, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted January 5, 2020 Share #25 Posted January 5, 2020 On 1/4/2020 at 8:27 AM, Randomguy said: I like pickles and have wanted real pickles (the old-fashioned fermented kind), but they are almost impossible to find out and about. I like new pickles or half sours, but even the artisan pickle people around here seem to make them the fast way. Anyway, I bought some pickles at Trader Joe's last night. They are half-sour probiotic and fermented and they are pretty good and from the Sonoma Brinery. Wouldn't you think someone would fill the void closer to the east coast? They weren't expensive, but I imagine shipping them this way would have cost a small fortune. Discus. Mennonite or Amish are out your way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted January 5, 2020 Share #26 Posted January 5, 2020 4 hours ago, Randomguy said: It turns out that my sauerkraut came from California, too. That's why I buy Frank's Quality Kraut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted January 5, 2020 Share #27 Posted January 5, 2020 So I guess Franksville is a company town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 5, 2020 Share #28 Posted January 5, 2020 1 hour ago, BR46 said: That's why I buy Frank's Quality Kraut I eat Frank's sauerkraut but my can doesn't say anything about Wisconsin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted January 5, 2020 Share #29 Posted January 5, 2020 Trader Joe’s is a California based business. A lot of their stuff is proprietary and from California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted January 5, 2020 Share #30 Posted January 5, 2020 47 minutes ago, donkpow said: I eat Frank's sauerkraut but my can doesn't say anything about Wisconsin. I think the Franksville plant is closed down years ago but I think kraut fest is still going. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted January 5, 2020 Share #31 Posted January 5, 2020 26 minutes ago, BR46 said: I think the Franksville plant is closed down years ago but I think kraut fest is still going. We have a sauerkraut festival near here. It is a great success for the little town. Mostly because of all the antique, arts, and crafts vendors. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted January 6, 2020 Share #32 Posted January 6, 2020 Gedney it's a Minnesota Pickle https://www.gedneyfoods.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 6, 2020 Share #33 Posted January 6, 2020 9 hours ago, Randomguy said: It turns out that my sauerkraut came from California, too. ...I live here in California, and this morning (as a special treat) I bought fresh blueberries from Chile. I'm not agonizing over the inefficiency of transporting them all that way, because I bought them at Trader Joe's, a California based company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 7, 2020 Share #34 Posted January 7, 2020 ...this popped up in today's NY Times: Usha Prabakaran’s 20-year-old cookbook, crammed with recipes from home cooks, is simple and self-published. But it has become a cult classic in India. India’s pickle culture goes back thousands of years to when cucumbers and other vegetables were simply preserved in salt. Modern Indian pickles are more complex and probably more delicious, too — hot and tangy, deeply perfumed with aromatics and ground spices. Chitra Agrawal, a New York cookbook author and founder of the pickle company Brooklyn Delhi, remembers the ceramic jugs at her grandmother’s home in Bengaluru in southern India, which held lemons in a slushy saltwater brine. This Karnataka-style pickle was seasoned with fresh green chiles and mango ginger, a fruity-tasting rhizome related to turmeric. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 7, 2020 Share #35 Posted January 7, 2020 On 1/4/2020 at 5:27 PM, MickinMD said: The uncooked, very crisp, always-refrigerated Clausen dill spears work for me. Clausen is headquartered in Illinois but I don't know where they get their cucumbers. Nor do I care. I am not sure I believe you. I expected a multi paragraph follow up soon on the creation of the Clausen cucumber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted January 7, 2020 Share #36 Posted January 7, 2020 1 hour ago, jsharr said: I expected a multi paragraph follow up soon on the creation of the Clausen cucumber. The company C. F. Claussen & Sons was founded by Claus Claussen Sr. in Chicago in May 1870.[8][9] Claussen was a vegetable farmer on land that today is in the Chicago city limits at 51st and South Western Blvd. He had a surplus crop of cucumbers one year, and so he decided to pickle them. Claussen pickles were produced on the same piece of land until 1976 when the plant moved to Woodstock, Ill.[10] Claus Claussen Sr. was succeeded by his son Claus S. Claussen, who was serving as president of the company when he died following an automobile accident on December 20, 1932.[11] For some years, William C. Claussen (b. 1890) served as president of the Claussen Pickle Company.[12] The company was sold to Oscar Mayer in 1970 and moved to Woodstock in 1976. Oscar Mayer was later acquired by General Foods in 1981, who in turn merged with Kraft, Inc. in 1990 to form Kraft General Foods, renamed Kraft Foods in 1995. In 2002, the investment group that owned Vlasic Pickles sought to acquire the Claussen brand as well. The Federal Trade Commission blocked the proposed merger on the grounds that it would have severe anti-competitive effects, leading to a monopoly in the refrigerated-pickle market. * *previously covered on our show, "Pickle Wars": In a 1992 television advertisement, Claussen pickles were shown to snap under pressure, whereas unidentified competing brands merely bent without snapping. In response, Vlasic Foods Inc. submitted a complaint to an advertising industry tribunal, claiming that the commercial was unfair and misleading.[4] Ultimately, however, the claims of Claussen were upheld by the tribunal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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