The McClure's pickles with scotch bonnets are phenomenal; somehow the supply up here in Ontario never keeps up so I always bring some home when I visit Michigan.
The first time I had one of these I was by the lake, popped open the jar right after a dip, and I nearly collapsed from the pleasure of it, serious.
Life hack: once you finish the pickles, slice up a cucumber the same way and top the jar off with vinegar. Maybe throw in another clove of garlic and a habanero. Let it sit for a week in the fridge. The fresh pickles have all the flavor of the original pickles with the extra crunch of fresh cucumber.
Reusing pickle juice is bomb! My dad figured it out. Thinks he deserves some Nobel prize, or something. Pretty good trick. 2 days is all I have patience for.
Lol I was being facetious. As a North Carolina native, I have eaten my fair share of Mt. Olives! Great pickles! Homemade are the best for sure. I have a couple raised beds at a local comunity garden, I am planning on making my own this year as well! Can't wait!
Indian-made pickles are surprisingly common these days, and quite good as well, particularly given that Western-style pickles have very little in common with Indian ones.
General grumble: the way this article (and the US) conflate "pickle" with "cucumber pickled in vinegar", even though there's an actual "PickleVerse" of all sorts of other pickled foods out there.
There are some of what are called solution mines in Northern Michigan that produce nothing but table salt. In solution mining they introduce water under pressure down wells to melt the salt and then retrieve it on the surface where the salt is separated out. My late father used to work for Morton Salt so I got a bit of an education ;<).
Well, at least the Windsor mine produces or at some point produced both kinds, and so do a number of other mines (most operated by Sifto, IIRC). The salt that goes on our roads and walkways for safety in southern Ontario AFAIK comes from the Windsor mine, and so does or did some of the edible salt (though I think these days Sifto sells a lot more of the table salt than Windsor, I remember growing up with Windsor branded salt).
I knew this, but had a harsh realization once. I was moving out of a place, and flushing down the things that were flushable to save garbage runs.
One such thing was a jar of mini-pickles. The next day, I realized why that was a problem. They probably rehydrated in the pipes back to their originalish size. That toilet didn't flush properly again for a while.
The first time I had one of these I was by the lake, popped open the jar right after a dip, and I nearly collapsed from the pleasure of it, serious.