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More the longing for what I can't have unless I buckle down and make my own. Too much effort at the moment, I'm afraid, given all the things I really ought to be doing instead. I don't end up craving American stuff too often here... but some days just really need chicken salad with proper dill pickles in.

What I missed way over the foamy seas was liver and good crusty bread of certain types. Say what you like about the kip where I live, but we *do* do bread well.

I just had a look on the Tesco online grocery site, logged into my account so its showing waht is availible here, at my store, and it came up with:

Krakus Pickled Dill Cucumbers 890g

From the
Polish Groceries shelf

£1.26

So maybe one of the Tesco stores in Norwich ahs a Polish section too? Don't know what they taste like... will have to wait until I do a grocery shop myself before I can try em

Hey! I'm with the 'Try them' brigade. I've always been of the philosophy that if you don't try, how can you tell if you like it or not?

If someone hadn't tried gherkins in the first place you wouldn't have this dilemma, because you
wouldn't know about gherkins... sweet or otherwise...

So LIVE A LITTLE!!! Someone took the chance of shoving a green vegetable in their mouth and hoped it wouldn't them!!! You don't have to worry, because they took that chance, so you won't so just go for it!!!



What is the problem???

MMF

Agreed.... and I just found the new (I've not seen it before ) 'Polish shelf, in the 'world cuisine' section on the grocery website... heck I've not the slightest clue waht this stuff is... tins? food? drinks? I'll find out though soon

Sometimes the logic expressed on this thread totally escapes me.

For anyone who missed it, as Amy pointed out, I am indeed her mother. So yes, I do know exactly what kind of pickles she's looking for, and also why any pickle that tastes the least bit sweet simply will not do for her chicken salad.

We described exactly what she wanted, and described the flavor and ingredients that are part of what she wanted, as well as those that simply *must not* be included. After providing options that included large quantities of the exact ingredient we said could *not* be included, now you somehow think she's being stubborn, because she finds those choices unacceptable.

We have available in the US a plethora of different types of pickles, including Polish Dills, which is why we know what they taste like. What you've told us you've found there are Polish Dills, but despite our repeated attempts to tell you that that they're definitely not what she wants, some of you can't seem to understand why they're not acceptable for this purpose.

Any pickle which has sugar as the 3rd ingredient will indeed fall into the category of a sweet pickle, even if it also has dill (causing it to also fall into the dill pickle category), and therefore will be an unacceptable flavor in the chicken salad. These are the ones she found at her local store. Simply put, because of their added sugar content, by our standards they're sweet pickles. Amy and I both know this, which is why we don't use them in our chicken salad.

There may indeed be some of the type of dill pickles that she wants over there... somewhere. The one brand of dill pickles someone pointed out would be fine - assuming the ingredients are the same as the ingredients listed on the website for that particular pickle. (I think they were whole kosher dills, although the different cuts of "kosher dill" pickles on that site were made using very different recipes - one of them being very sweet) It has nothing to do with whether they're kosher or not, it's the use of dill and garlic, *and* the lack of sugar that makes the difference.



You are all of course welcome to enjoy any pickles you like and have available in your area. Remember that food preferences vary!

But please... refrain from assuming and insisting that just because *you* find a pickle (or any other food) to be acceptable for *your* purposes that anyone else will find that same food suitable for their purposes, especially when they have repeatedly specified exactly what they're looking for, which simply isn't the same thing as what you've suggested.

Thank you for trying though!


BTW, I think she's going to have to end up making her own dill pickles - but she's going to have to want them badly enough to put the time and effort required into making them.