100 Things Challenge and First Entry!

[febobe]

I need to get my sign-up done once I post this; maybe I can put the image into the next post. I do want to say how excited I am that so many people are taking this on. Everyone's challenge choices sound so very exciting and I can't wait to enjoy them all! :)

Today's entry, my very first, is from the 100 Foods (I Love To Talk About) edition. Bon appetit!



Sweet pickles were the first pickle I ever liked, and they're one of my all-time favorite foods. (As a matter of fact, I'm about to dig into one of the two new jars of sweet petites I bought this afternoon.) Incidentally, they're also the name of a really cute children's book series from my own childhood, though I loved the food before I ever encountered the books.

Today, I'll sometimes eat dill or bread and butter pickles, but sweets are still something I love more than any other variety. I have been known to eat them by themselves, though I also really like them with salty potato chips (plain). Which is, I realize, a sodium disaster, but that's what I love. I just try not to eat that combination nearly as often as I used to. ;)

My favorite sweet pickles are the little pickle packs you can get here at Sureway, little individual cups sold four to a pack, just delicious sweet pickles packed in juice, which I drain off before enjoying. They're wonderful and help me not eat too many at one time, which is sometimes a temptation. A *serious* temptation.

Sweet pickles do not feature prominently in most of my writing. I'm sure hobbits would have them, just...it's not high on the list, as some of the other foods I'll be discussing are. Notably, sweet pickles are exactly what I've always had in mind when there is the call, "And bring out the cold chicken and pickles!" in The Hobbit. :) (I mean, they COULDN'T have meant DILL, surely?!?) There is an episode of LOOTR on my drawing-board, though, which calls for pickles, so that may well turn out to be a sweet pickle fest for Frodo and friends.

And yes, I like relish, though mostly just on hot dogs. ;)

What kind(s) of pickles do YOU like best, dear friends? :)

Cheers,
Febobe :)

Comments

[shirebound]

I love eating tuna sandwiches when there's relish mixed in with the tuna. And no hot dog is complete without relish!

My favorite pickles are those huge ones that I grew up calling Kosher pickles, so sour and crispycrunchy. The more 'pickled' (sour) the better, since that's the way my dad made them in that crock in the garage.

I love imagining the hobbits teaching the cooks in Rivendell (or Minas Tirith) how to make pickles.

[dreamflower]

I too am a sweet pickle lover, and do NOT like dill pickles at all, or even bread and butter pickles though I've made both.

I love sweet gherkins, but my favorite sweet pickles I make myself: lime pickles. These are NOT made with limes, but are called that because you soak the cucumbers in lime water overnight, before draining and rinsing them. It makes them taste incredibly light and crisp! They are so good, and I only have one partial jar of my last batch left!

I don't buy relish, but when I need to use some in tuna or chicken salad, I simply mince up some sweet pickles!

My favorite way to eat them (something that will now be a rare treat, *sigh*) is with slices of cheddar cheese and Ritz crackers, accompanied by a Diet Coke.

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

I'm a pickle lover with the exception of the sweet ones. Really don't like it when I get one when I'm not expecting it. The sourer the better. Best ones are the tubs of pickles in chunks you get at Jewish delis. You usually get at least two kinds, one kosher and the other so lightly pickled that you still discern the cucumbers.

Yum.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

I LOVE pickles! The ones I eat are something like pickled shallot or pickled chili. :D