Pickles

My wife wants to make some kind of salad which involves pickles. The only pickles we can seem to find here are sour or diced and black.

I don't know much about this myself but does anyone know where we can get the same kind of pickles as are commonly available in the US - i.e. sweet and green?

I've seen them mail order but I am hoping to get them from a supermarket near by.

thanks, Andy

I'd kill for a good, sour dill pickle!  All I can find are the sweeter ones.

Have you checked in any shops that sell Polish food?  I bought a jar of Polish dill pickles the other day.  The brand is Rolnick, and they're 'ogorki konserwawe.' I was hoping they'd be more like the Milwaukee Polish dills I'm familiar with, but they were sweeter, more like what you'd find in American salads or sweet pickle relish, or what we'd call Bread & Butter pickles.

Not bad, but not what I was personally hoping for.  But I thought they'd be perfect in salads.

Asda sells the polish ones woadgrrl is talking about. There is one with out sugar and one with, still not purify, but better than nothing.

You can try Costco if you have a membership (and have one nearby).  They had real dill pickles the last time I was there.

You can try Costco if you have a membership (and have one nearby).  They had real dill pickles the last time I was there.

 A real dill pickle is almost worth buying a years membership.... I miss my Kosher Dills!!

I've seen pickles at Morrison's, too. They're by the Branston pickle stuff(which is in the freezer section.  ) and also in the Polish section of the "World Food" aisle.

Lidle has dill pickles and the're not bad

I've seen pickles at Morrison's, too. They're by the Branston pickle stuff(which is in the freezer section.  ) and also in the Polish section of the "World Food" aisle.

Your Morrison's is laid out different to ours! Pickles are kept with pickled onions in our Morrisons in the condiments aisle, between the jars of olives and the mustards. Although I did notice the American squeezy mustard was with the ketchup and not with the mustard!

*sigh*  I wish our Co-op had whole aisles for these things!  It's basically the size of, and stocked like, a Tesco Metro or something.  And these days, since we're starting to get tourists, the shelves are bare half the time anyhow!

I can't wait to hit up Costco and other, real supermarkets while we're on the mainland later this month!

...or what we'd call Bread & Butter pickles.

I don't care about dill pickles - the gherkins here suit me fine.  But I so miss sweet Bread & Butter pickles.

However, today I found a product called Gherkin Slices in Home Bargains, that looking at the pickles and the ingredient list - well they looked & sounded an awfully lot like Bread & Butter pickles.  So I bought them home to try.  They aren't very crisp, but yep - Bread & Butter pickles so I'm happy!  They look like they could have a Polish brand name, but the jar says they were produced in Germany.

I am going back to buy more jars tomorrow.  Home Bargains buys lots of various stuff & sometimes when it's gone, it's gone - bye bye Bread & Butter pickles, no more.

Your Morrison's is laid out different to ours! Pickles are kept with pickled onions in our Morrisons in the condiments aisle, between the jars of olives and the mustards. Although I did notice the American squeezy mustard was with the ketchup and not with the mustard!

Tell me about it! Don't even get me started on our Asda! Some days, I want to walk round with a map in my hand for both places. They both probably have the things I want, but I don't find them because it takes ages to walk round the whole store to search, and I can't be asked. 

They aren't very crisp, but yep - Bread & Butter pickles so I'm happy! 

Once these were refrigerated, nice & cold - yessss!  Just like Bread & Butter pickles.  Lovely. 

I'm getting more jars of them on Monday, to keep in the cupboard.