The picture above is an old German satirical picture from the wonderful Food Mania. I tried to figure it out but I couldn't. Something about the economy going to shit and immigration? Anyway, some gratuitous stories about pickles to accompany it...
1) On Saturday night people were amused at John's Russian party that I had brought a jar of pickles with me. But the pickle chaser is my favourite - nothing better gets the taste of a shot of cheap vodka out of your mouth and nothing complements good vodka better.
2) When my sister Marion was seeing The Pianist in Poland there was a man sitting behind who didn't have very good eyesight - a woman accompanying him was explaining things to him. The mood was sombre and grim, as you'd expect in a holocaust film, until a scene which featured a big jar of pickles. "What are they?" the man said "Ogorki" the woman whispered. "What?"
"OGORKI!". I still think of this and chuckle whenever I see a jar of Polski Ogorki - the only style pickle to eat.
3) When I was about 12 we took my friend Chris Evans on a family camping trip. He had never eaten pickles before and had to be goaded into trying them. He thought they were really weird. I thought he was a freak for not loving them. Luckily my friends now have better taste. On a recent camping trip with 4 mates we had to buy 2 jars of Bick's Polski Ogorki everytime we hit a town.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
ogorki a-hoy
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4 comments:
The old scanned picture thing is working out quite well for you, actually. It makes for a lovely blog.
picklez yo!! orsum. my grandma used to have these ones called bread-and-butter cucumbers that were gaufrette sliced like crinkle-cut chips. they were really sweet and disgusting.
esther i think that if i were to take one piece of useful advice from our almost-15-year (!) friendship it would be you wise words about pickles: avoid sweet-and-sour at all costs and try very hard to never buy pickles made in australia. fuck buying your kids a job, polish kids need jobs too. also your genius in combining pickles with peanut butter in a sandwich scenario. yum.
*standing ovation for pickle-centric blog post*
xxnell
ps i have been working very hard on the cookbook, i am very excited about it and so is my mum.
why thank you both...
i'm glad you're enjoying the pics suebob... the ogorki one is pretty awesome isn't it?
and yes i agree that bread-and-butter cucumbers are a bit gross.. i don't like how they are soft..although the crinkle cut thing is quite cool.
mmm.. pickle sandwiches, there's a whole post in them..
I found a pickle that is as good as Bicks and a lot cheaper. $6 Australian for a 1.95kg jar.
They are sooooooooo good.
I can't stay away from them!
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