Poll: I like Branston Pickle

[Oskuro]

I live in Spain, which is why it has come as such a surprise to find Branston Pickle stocked in the imports section* of my local supermarket.

I have just tried it, and thus my understanding of Yahtzee's love for it is finally complete.

How do you feel about it?



*According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_(brand)#Availability_outside_the_UK], it is available in the south of Spain, I'll have to look for it once my local place stops importing it.
The one I have, though, has been imported from Australia, so I know I took mine, indirectly, off of Yahtzee's hands!

 

[Zhukov]

Yuck.

I tried it once. Saw it on the shelf figured I might as well.

Couldn't even bring myself to finish the jar. Which says a lot. I'm one of those weirdos who feels guilty if I let milk go bad or don't eat the apple core. Food has to be pretty dire for me to throw it out.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I bought a jar once.

I don't remember hating it but I do remember throwing a near full jar in the trash when I moved out of that house.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Branston pickle with cheese is bloody lovely. If you make cheese on toast, try including some.

 

[Barbas]

I bought a jar once.

I don't remember hating it but I do remember throwing a near full jar in the trash when I moved out of that house.

Oh, you just didn't eat it with strong enough cheese and ham!

OT: Branston's okay, but preferable with expired sandwich ingredients to distract from the flavour.

Branston pickle with cheese is bloody lovely. If you make cheese on toast, try including some.

I find that American cheese is best for this. Much like beer, they have some miraculous way of making it taste absolutely dire, which helps take away some of the Branston's power. It's sort of like how being kicked in both shins is more enjoyable than being kicked in just one.

EDIT: Maybe wash it down with some Bud Light...or a Diet Irn Bru. Tasty.

 

[Neverhoodian]

You lucky dog. Nobody in my hometown sells Branston Pickle. As such, I never got a chance to try it until five years ago, when I visited some relatives of mine in England. I got a jar from them as a going-away gift on my last day, and I went to town on the stuff. It's delicious with cheese or as a sandwich condiment. However, as much as I like it I'm not going to pay and arm and a leg to import the stuff. Besides, you can get a reasonable approximation of what it tastes like by mixing pickle relish with barbeque sauce and mustard.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Being English, Branston Pickle is always in my fridge. Its great for sandwiches and salad.

When i went to the USA to meet a friend and her kids i brought Branston Pickle, Blood Pudding, Brown Sauce, crumpets and Battenberg Cake. They hated all of them. Though they liked the Kinder Eggs as they were banned in USA - and German. Guess they liked German goods and not English goods.

Come on, who wouldnt love chocolate with a toy surprise.

 

[Silvanus]

It's readily and widely available here in England. I like it a lot with strong cheese.

 

[Toejam]

Oh yeah Cathedral City cheddar with Branston pickle is just an awesome sandwich. Virtually every packed lunch I have has it!

Ready Salted crisps on top is a nice added extra...

P.S change out the pickle for marmite for the 2nd best sandwich

 

[Loop Stricken]

I'm not too sure about it.

The last time I had it, it was in a Branston Pickle-themed sausage roll, and it was quite nice. I bought about ten of them, but only because they were going out of date and were thus reduced in price.

 

[Harpalyce]

Kinda meh on the stuff myself, but my father is incredibly enthusiastic to near-Yahtzee levels about it. I think it's some sort of Stockholm syndrome reflex since he went to Cambridge, and in 1970's England, you either found SOME aspect of British cuisine to like or you starved. So whenever we find some (which is slightly rare in vaguely-metro-area Atlanta Georgia), he is extremely pleased.

Me, I'll just be content with a nice sharp cheddar, and if it's to top a cheese sandwich I'd rather grill the thing and have a side of tomato soup. But I also only take my tea iced and with a shit-ton of sugar in it, so I already know if I ever get to England I will be swiftly identified as an American heathen...

 

[Evil Moo]

I rarely make a sandwich which doesn't involve both cheese and Branston Pickle as main constituents. Without it, my sandwiches would be flat and dull in comparison.

 

[shootthebandit]

In the north of england and scotland this stuff is a staple of the diet. We grew up on cheese and pickle sandwiches

Yuck.


Couldn't even bring myself to finish the jar

So you ate it out the jar? Thats probably where you went wrong. It nice with cheese or with a ploughmans lunch (cheese, ham, bread, apple and onion)

Make a cheese and ham sandwich add some branston pickle its amazing

 

[Zhukov]

Yuck.


Couldn't even bring myself to finish the jar

So you ate it out the jar? Thats probably where you went wrong.

Wut?

What on earth led you to that conclusion?

I used it in sandwiches. Well, two sandwiches to be precise. Then I chucked the rest of it out because putting that stuff in a sandwich was just ruining otherwise perfectly good cheese, meat and bread.

 

[shootthebandit]

Yuck.


Couldn't even bring myself to finish the jar

So you ate it out the jar? Thats probably where you went wrong.

Wut?

What on earth led you to that conclusion?

I used it in sandwiches. Well, two sandwiches to be precise. Then I chucked the rest of it out because putting that stuff in a sandwich was just ruining otherwise perfectly good cheese, meat and bread.

I suppose its more of a cultural thing. Branston pickle is sort of a norm in the UK (well the north. Not too sure about the south) cheese and pickle sandwiches are what I grew up on. When I remember my school lunches as a kid I remember cheese and pickle. .

I thought you were eating it out the jar when you said "I couldnt even bring myself to finish the jar"

This thread is basically going to be a load of brits singing the praises of branston pickle while non-brits are like "what is this shit? Its horrible"

 

[Barbas]

(Snip).

Hehe, probably. Reminds me of what Reginald Hunter thought of British cuisine when he was on holiday...

Spoiler

Apple and brie is usually nicer in sandwiches.

 

[SirBob42]

I'm thoroughly American. I will admit I didn't know about the stuff until I heard Yahtzee going on and on about it. But I did and so when I saw it in a local grocery store I had to try it out (I do have a thing for pickled foods) even if it was almost seven bucks a jar. It is quite fantastic, even if I haven't been able to figure out anything else to do with it other than make ham, cheese and pickle sandwiches.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I live in the United States and have no idea where to even find the stuff stateside...if it's even available at all (which I'm sure it is, I just haven't been looking hard enough). I'm curious to try it but I really don't see myself liking it all that much.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

**SNIP**

What range of taste would these pickles be considered part of? Sweet, sour, two steps away from shit?

I'm curious of foods I can't get here... and seeing as how divisive these pickles apparently are (why else would Yahtzee feature them?).