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I make my turkey sandwiches with Claussen or I don't make them at all!
Pickle your own.  Way cheaper and kinda fun.  I mostly pickle eggs and onions. The small white onions, pickled in apple cider, omg. >

Do you have a good recipe for the brine? I've had some trouble with my recipes before. >

I wing it.  I'm not ready to advise on the eggs, but for the small white onions I fill a half gal jar with the onions, throw in 3 tbl spoons of salt (I use saltvert, definitely use good stuff) and 3 tbl spoons sugar (again, good stuff). I add a bunch of mustard seeds, pepper corn, sliced jalapeno, and. also some chopped red onions (which usually you pickle sliced in their own, but in this case their mostly their to give the white onions a pinkish hue once they're ready, ~3 weeks). Just fill the the rest of the jar with apple cider vinegar, shake it up, put it the fridge, and try to forget about it. >

Sweet thanks for the tips! >

This honestly shouldn’t be unpopular >

I have a friend that despises them for no reason. That's what sparked this post. >

That’s odd, the fact that they’re refrigerated at grocery stores while vlassic isn’t should say enough. >

I've had some bad refrigerated pickles, but I absolutely hate  vlassic. >

As someone from a food culture that pickles a lot of things, this is just so... wrong. I think if you meant mass produced pickles only, then you might have a point, but I've never had a store bought pickle that could even begin to approach some of the homemade pickles I've had. >

Claussen are pretty great, but I found a locally made brand called "Grillo's" a few years back that blow everything out of the water (brine?), but even that opinion varies when it comes to specific varieties of pickle; I'm actually a really big fan of Stop & Shop's house brand bread and butter chips.
I've heard it said that any given person's favorite pickle is going to be whichever tastes closest to the pickles they ate when they were a kid. It's very much a nostalgia-based food item, for some reason. >

Sometimes the truth is unpopular...