Sometimes you just need a big 'ol strappin' pickle...and when you do, I know just the guy...www.melsolives.com
Spicy Jumbo Pickles!! I ordered a gallon jar of these a few years ago and since I've recently been on the hunt for a good jumbo pickle for my whole-fried-pickle experiment I revisited the website and thought I'd share the wonderful world of Mel's Olives with y'all.
Here in New York, the grocery store shelves are mostly stocked with kosher style pickles, so I thought about asking someone down South to just send me a jar of Vlasic Polish pickles, but I checked their website and they don't even make them anymore and all the other whole pickles, mostly sold in gallon jars, tend to be sour dills. Mel makes those too and I love a big sour pickle-I call them "concession stand pickles" because as a kid, I sucked and gnawed on one at every junior high and high school football, basketball and baseball game my mother dragged me to. I especially liked to take a few small pieces of chipped ice from my concession stand "suicide" and poke them down in the middle of my pickle. The ice would make the pickle extra sour and add a bit of crunch, since those giant pickle jars always lived on a counter top and not in a fridge. These aren't sour pickles like you'd find in the pickle barrel at a Kosher deli, no these pickles are make-your-mouth-pucker-and-spine-shiver SOUR!
When I got my gallon jar from Mel's Olives a couple of years ago, I too, had to keep them on display on my counter top since my squatty New York-sized refrigerator couldn't hold it (the one I have now can't even have a 2 liter Coke bottle standing upright in it and to think in the South most people stock up with 3 liter bottles). The pickles are obscenely and thrillingly huge, so why not keep them on display? And yeah, they taste good too. They are just like my old "concession stand pickles" but nice and spicy and I remember them also having a great garlic flavor. If you have room in your fridge next to your 3 liter of Mountain Dew, you can also just buy a gallon jar of jalapeno slices and take some regular 'ol pickles and poke 'em down in your jar. The longer you leave them there, the HOTTER they get.
So, Thank You Mel, for making a jumbo spicy pickle that may take me a whole day to eat. It's time well spent. You'll be hearing from me soon.
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2 comments:
so Katy, have you deep fried the whole pickle yet? Did I tell you they served deep fried Wickles at some chain wing place in Birmingham, maybe Buffalo Wild Wings or something like that? They were pretty good, but even those were a little thick for frying in my opinion. I think I like Wickles best straight out of the jar.
"I especially liked to take a few small pieces of chipped ice from my concession stand "suicide" and poke them down in the middle of my pickle."
This is fascinating. It's like watching a feral child wandering around in a corner store.
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