Branston Original Pickle (360g) - Pack of 2

1 bottle was broken but the other bottle was ok and the pickles were great

This is a delicious sounding mix of vegetables that were chopped into tiny cubes and pickled. Which is great because I love all kinds of picked vegetables. The problem is that it has obscene amounts of both salt and sugar compared to other pickles. Even washing it out in water first only mitigated the horribleness. Even putting a tiny amount of it in a sandwich didn't really dilute it, as soon as you bite into the part where you put it in you feel overwhelming quantities of salt and sugar. Each package is literally 31% sugar by weight according to the nutrition label (not daily recommended value %, actual weight %). For salt, I actually prefer pickles made in brine (salt water) to those pickled in vinegar. So I already like my pickles salty, but this goes way beyond being "merely" lots of salt and into the realm of obscene amounts of salt.

What can I say. If you know, you know. So delicious and tangy great to add to a cheese and to make a ploughman’s sandwich.

A taste from my early life in the UK. I grew up enjoying cheddar cheese on bread or toast liberally garnished with Branston pickle. Along with pickled onions Branston is the original sweet and sour chutney that I remember as part of a pub "Ploughman's Lunch" (although I never did much ploughing (or plowing) to earn it. I still enjoy it on cheese now living in the US and I am glad I can get it conveniently through Amazon.

Just like I remember