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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.
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.