Besides cucumbers, I like pickled peaches and beets. As to the perfect dill pickle, there needs to be equal amounts of dill and garlic and the garlic should be in whole cloves so that they can be eaten and enjoyed themselves. WER

What is the best pickle commercial brand at the Supermarket?

Klassons if you want extra crispy but, if not eaten right away they can go bad you have to keep them refrigerated from the day of purchase. They are also a little more money then you might want to spend, If you on a budget.

I love a pickled onion... or a pickled gerkin!

Any more ideas on favorite pickle brands. How about favorite oddball pickles. My fave oddball pickle is okra pickles!

Homemade pickled green beans, carrot sticks, and califlower and I do add garlic just a little to the carrots preserved in pint jars use a 8 jar pressure cooker. Never had pickled peaches I have preserved homemade sweet peaches, pears, plums.

How do you do that (pickle peaches)?

My mom's are much like her pickled beets. Predominately the same spices and all. I'll try and get her to give me the recipe. Does anyone know where to buy pickled pig's feet by the gallon here in Austin? One of my fellow employees really wants to get some. As for brands, I like Kroger's house brand for baby dills, otherwise I usually go for Vlassic. Back soon. WER

No clue on pig's feet, it's out of my territory.

I figured as much, there being a lot of veggies in here and all, but I had to ask. I'm glad to see the place expanding as much as it is. WER

We have some javalina's running around down in the woods out back. That's the closest pigs feet I know about.

Pickled star-fruit... loverly

Sorry about that last one, my little girl was helping me. No one's mentioned pickled eggs yet. I pickled some recently for a coworker using the liquid from a jar of hot pepper rings. They turned out a beautiful yellow. WER

Texafrance's Cranberry and Pear Chutney tastes exactly like Mom's pickled peaches. When I asked her about the recipe for the peaches, she's not quite sure where it is. When it gets found, I'll post it. WER

Cool!

Jim "Leplep le Plep" Gross, in a previous life!

Where did you come up with that one anyway, Stacey? Or does it represent the kind of thoughts that enter your head after a two line mind strike?! HA-Ha!

kind of representative, yes.

HA-HA! You're lucky to have two-line mind strikes. When I don't sleep at night I have day-long mind strikes walking around with my eyes shut and saying 'uh' when people talk to me. Funny, 'cos it kind of adds up - my best friend once complemented me for being great with two year-olds; said I really knew how to communicate with them. Figures, doesn't it. If only she knew!

I know what you mean... people tell me all the time how good I am with the special ed children.... um... like minds think alike?!?!

Must be something like that! Ha-Ha! I must tell you something about my 2 year old - Elza. She has just started to roar like a lion - with a really viscious expression on her face. Whenever she hears the word 'lion' she roars as loudly as she can. So sometimes when we sit on the tram these little old ladies sitting behind us start cooing over them, then I whisper 'lion' in her ear, and she roars at them. It always gives them a shock, and know I should stop it, but I can never resist . . . especially now that Isa nudges me when she sees little ladies coming to sit behind us. She always laughs herself to bits.

excellent!

Hi, Wer!

good morning, sorry I ditched on ya, had to take a nap...

No problem, I went shopping with my girls just after writing that, and felt a little guilty about it. But now I don't have to - hope you're having a nice day too.

What kinda pickles did you buy?

None today - got a whole fridge full right here. I don't know different kind of pickles, only the sour ones in jars. You get different kinds??

tons

Can't go there right now - too drunk, too fucked.

That was way too impulsive. But I really am very drunk. Don't know why I'm here at all; oh yes, the BBC news is on, and I've just seen about the most depressing film I have ever seen. I feel upset - so I thought a - no, may not say that word here, sorry - 'session' would make me feel better. It was great, but I'm still depressed. Oh heck, just ignore, will you?

Dill spears, the kind that stand upright in the jar.

just knocked off a whole jar of pickles (well not JUST) they lasted for all of 3 days! It'd been so long... I kinda went on a binge!

I've eaten 4 jars of pickles in the last week.

and we're damned proud of ya!!!!!

I bought these fantastic organic dills from my co-op--I think we could eat a jar at one sitting, me and Juliette!

That is the way pickles were meant to be.

Yes. Little organic green UFO's floating around in stomach enzymes, and ending up more organic than before.

Oh, what a lovely sentiment!

Thank you. My vertical energy is flowing quite well today...

another lovely sentiment, as well...

I'm glad to hear it.

Now it just needs the perfect pickle to make it perfect. Hey, you know what I stumbled upon last night? A Namibian Chat Site! It is the most hilarious thing! Bunch of Afrikaners insulting one another left and right - I was in stitches!

There is a chat site where they just insult each other?

You have now idea. It's just amazing! Sort of reminds me of all the things I don't miss about living amongst my own race...

Explain Namibia.

Namibia is great. Afrikaners (like myself) are vulgar, snappy little dogs!

Could you go in to a little more detail? Did Namibia used to be Rhodesia? etc.

I thought Burkina Faso used to be Rhodesia.

and I thought Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia...

And the winner is.......the muffin!!!!! �clapping enthusiastically� Namibia used to be South West Africa. We used to be dependent on South Africa. Then, 10 years ago, Swapo, a 'bl�ck, communist, terrorist, one-legged lesbian' organization (in the Afrikaners' eyes) managed to break through our Norhern border at Angola, and demanded independence, and an immediate election. Surprise surprise, they win, country becomes independent, and is renamed, Namibia, after our great and beautiful desert, the Namib. Afrikaners flock to South Africa like sheep, scared $hitless of what the 'bl�cks' would do to them - seeing as they were abused and exploited and discriminated against for over 90 years. Sweet irony, isn't it? 'Cos in South Africa no Boer is sure of his life anymore, and in Namibia all those who were willing to stay, and push their racism up their ar$es, where it belongs, are living together in perfect peace.

Excellent analysis. Are you sure you can't get a job as a talking head on Nightline? They must need someone on the scene in Namibia. What a wonderful sounding name for a country. Do you know more about the origins of this name. And that's great that you can be one of the peaceful co-existers with the "blecks" (I don't know how you make that funny character).

Set the keyboard on the French language, and press { to make the circumflex accent. (Hey, did I just teach Terry something about the computer? LOL!!!)

taught me too... (of course, coming in from the web, I can copy and paste, as well...)

woo woo!

oow oow!

Woo Woo to you!

oops! I think I am in one!

I like kosher dills.

what are they?????

Kosher dills are the only pickle to eat on a hamburger. Okay, I do have an old friend that's on Spring and she's partial to sweet pickle relish on burgers. As for me -- it's kosher dills rule! I've no idea why they're "kosher" though. They do taste wonderful. I'd love to learn more about those pickled peaches. I once bought something called "peachup". It was the same idea as ketchup, only made with peaches instead of tomatoes. The peachup was quite good on chicken. I haven't seen it years. Probably only 8 other people besides me ever bought it.