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Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth (www.witn.com)
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[–] 103 points 3 weeks ago* (10 children)

I honestly think their pickles kind of suck, at least the dills aren't super great, but I will consider trying some other varieties, good job Mt Olive

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    They have a Sweet N Hot mix that works great in brat pockets.

    • Get some tin foil.
    • Put a pack of brats (the kind that are already cooked/need to be warmed up - like Johnsonville or whatever) on the middle of the foil (leave enough room to fold up into a packet)
    • Chop up some sweet n hot peppers, and an equal amount of white onion - put that on top.
    • seal up the packet, bake at 350°F until heated through
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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    What if I cook my brats from raw

    It sounds great, I'm just not sure I want to change to precooked

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think they have a place for certain things. Also the mt.olive simply pickles kosher dills with the red banner is way better than their regular kosher dills.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Ah gotcha, I'll give them a go, I just didn't care for the dill spears or hamburger slices, no one makes a decent hamburger dill now they are all giant slabs of cucumber or bad lol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I buy their whole pickles and then slice my own on a mandolin slicer. Love the flat deli style slices on sandwiches but they only sell them with ripples!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I usually use their roasted red peppers for shakshuka. They work pretty well for that.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Sounds tasty, I never made that myself I'll have to try! thank you :)

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Definitely do. I mostly follow Alton Brown's recipe, but I use a jar of the Mt. Olive roasted red peppers instead of roasting my own as a time saver. I'll also usually do a 28 ounce can of crushed San Marzano tomatoes in puree instead of the beefsteak tomatoes. Both of these are because I usually make this as a weekend breakfast, and I can't be bothered to make those fresh first thing in the morning.

    Also, Alton's recipe uses urfa biber pepper, but Aleppo pepper is more traditional. IIRC, Aleppo pepper was hard to come by when he published it during the Syrian civil war, but it's much more plentiful now.

    The quick preserved lemons and the harissa can be made well in advance, and are also delicious in many other dishes. If you don't want to be bothered with the latter, Trader Joe's sells prepared harissa in a jar.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Oh, interesting, I have aleppo pepper but never heard of urfa biber. I love aleppo it has almost a citrus tang to it. I've had the Trader Joe's harissa it's good yea, they used to make an aleppo sauce actually but they stopped making it like 3 years ago, too bad it was so tasty on falafel :9 I'll check Alton's recipe and try your tasty alterations :)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    better or worse than Bick's?

    Bick's are like the default pickle up here in Ontario, and they're American so obvs a lot of us aren't buying them anymore. they still have a lot of shelf space, but I've started to see a lot of other brands get more. not more US brands though so I doubt I'll ever see these

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I've never had or heard of Bick's actually so I couldn't say. Looks like it was a Canadian brand that was bought by an American company so maybe we don't have it, we probably have the same product under a different name somewhere tho, like 4 companies make everything now

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Looked them up. Apparently they used to be owned by Smuckers, who kept the production in Canada, but they got sold to a company called Treehouse Foods, who moved it to Wisconsin. Treehouse apparently mostly makes store brand products.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've almost certainly had them then as I live in Wisconsin and have bought store brand pickles before, thank you for the info :) I guess I would say better than Bick's then, because I think they recycle old pickle juice for the store pickles or something, at least the ones I've tried haha

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