Mt. Olive NC

[jimbo1096]

@contender
Just watched a cooking show about Mount Olive where they have the annual pickle festival. The chef that was the host entered an eating contest where they gave the contestants a plate with 20 large dill pickles and the record was 13 in the five minute time limit. I can’t imagine sitting down and eating 13 large dills at one time. They also showed quite a few different edibles using a dill pickle, such as fried and a bloody Mary, ice cream, chocolate covered, and fried on a stick. Plus many more I can’t think of right now.I guess you have to be an adventurous consumer to try all of them. Wondered if you had been there, but looked it up and saw it was 4 hours away from Lake Lure.
Just had to get up and go get a kosher dill pickle out of the refrigerator.

 

[s4s4u]

I love dill, but I do have my limits....

 

[peachhead]

Mt Olive is my favorite brand of pickles and jalapenos.

 

[Jeepnik]

Would depend on how large. I've been known to eat a large jar of Valasic dill pickles in a sitting. With a cold glass of milk. YUM!
And the fairs around her have deep fried pickles, another favorite.

 

[gunzo]

Don't y'all remember the pickle contest on Andy Griffith? The area is famous for them.

OTOH, maybe just my crazy taste buds, but all Mt. Olive pickled brands taste about the same for me. Love their bread n butter pickles, but jalapeno slices or dills taste nearly the same. Thinking they should really pickle in different brines.

 

[Fox Mike]

Anyone remember Aunt Bea's pickles

 

[blume357]

yep, according to Andy they tasted like kerosine.... I remember when I was about 16 my mother made a batch of 'Aunt Bee's pickles..'.

I'm still mad at Clausen or Publix... can't get the whole Clausen Dills now only the sliced ones....

 

[bobski]

maybe its me but remember the days you went into a grocer and pulled pickles out of wood barrels with tongs?

 

[32shooter]

maybe its me but remember the days you went into a grocer and pulled pickles out of wood barrels with tongs?

We stop at a general store in Wawa Canada to buy bait on our fishing trips. They still have a pickle barrel in the store. I have never tried one as I prefer a sweet/hot pickle.

Local Sportsman's Show last weekend had a vendor selling pickles. I bought several containers of his horseradish pickles.

 

[Watertender]

I worked with a guy who was fairly gullible. One time we convinced him to make a grilled limburger cheese sandwich and it stunk up his entire house.
Another time we gave him a quart jar of Mt Olive hot pepper rings and he ate the entire jar in one sitting.
The next day he was farting so bad that nobody could stand to be anywhere near him!

 

[contender]

I've never been to the Mr. Olive pickle festival or any other event there.
I do enjoy several varieties of pickles though.

 

[MaxMan]

Never been to a pickle festival. Went to a Swamp Cabbage in La Belle Fl. festival through.

 

[wheelgun1958]

And now, the pickle emporium.

https://bestmaidpickles.com/pickle-emporium/

 

[jimbo1096]

This one may be from Texas, but I think I’ll pass