Milwaukee pickles had a dill with a Polish name (no way can I remember THAT) - I haven't seen them in the stores lately and can't find a website for Milwaukee pickles
I live not even 1 mile from this plant and did not know from what I researched, it was the producer of Milwaukee Pickles.
(Dean Specialty Foods Group, LLC - Green Bay)
I do not believe that are running the Milwaukee Pickle product line anymore.
I am looking into this more..
If it was not Dean Specialty Foods Group, LLC who was packing the pickles for Milwaukee Pickles, it may be a company called Mt.Olive Pickle Company, Inc. from North Carolina.
In 2005, Dean Specialty Foods Group, LLC was spun off from Dean Foods and became Bay Valley Foods, a division of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. TreeHouse, now an independent and publicly traded company, is led by Sam Reed and a team of seasoned food executives who were largely responsible for the tremendous growth at Keebler in the 90s.
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Hi there!
I just happened to run into them the other day. Piggly Wiggly carries them. At least, the one in the town I live in carries them. They are the real Milwaukee pickles! heheheh...I am not into pickles, but thought I would steer ya in the right direction. Good luck, and hope you have a pig there in your town or nearby.
Pinnacle Foods Corp. is the corperation who under our Vlasic brand (96% of branded sales) and pickles sold regionally under the Milwaukee's and Wiejske Wyroby brands (4% of branded sales).
pick and save carries them so does woodmens, at least in kenosha they do.
i have a funny story about those pickles, its true too.
back in 92, my wife and i moved to greenbay so that i could go to school there. we moved into an appartment and almost instantly began to crave pickles. it was the weirdest thing since neather of us really ate pickles. it continued on this way for weeks till we just had to go to the store and buy a large jar. even after we ate the pickles we continued to crave more. this got to the point, that we thought maybe my wife was pregnant and i was just haveing some weird simpathy craveings or something. we went as far as getting the testing strips and after getting a negative, went and got another one thinking the first couldnt be right. the second also showed a negative. we were baffled, but we kept eating those pickles. finally one day i was telling all this to a new friend in the neighborhood, and he had a good laugh at our expence, it turns out that pickle plant was only two blocks from where we lived. it seems we were smelling the brine from the plant and not even realizing it, and it was sending us into pickle fits.
we moved back to kenosha years ago.
but fouteen years later we still keep a big jar of milwaukee pickles in the fridge, ive just gotta have one every so often. weve been ruined by the plant to, no smushy,little wimpy, pickles will do eather.
i cant help but wonder how much worst it would be if we had lived in oconto.
soo thats my story and im sticking to it. i gotta go now i hear the pickles calling from the fridge.
oh yeah, and a word of advice to the young guys in greenbay, if she craves pickles, dont worry! its when she wants them on storhiems frozen custard that you have to worry! they just had to put those two places in the same neighborhood.
We love the Milwaukee Baby Dills! They have to be the best pickles around. We can find them all over here in the Kenosha grocery stores.
I remember being introduced to them back in the late 70's?? and been eating them ever since and they have always been #1 with us!
They are the best pickles to slice and put on top of a thin chunk of coby cheese and a triscut cracker. Oh, now I'm hungry again! lol
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Pickles and cheese? only in conjuction with a burger. I never heard of them any other way.. so this is new to me.
I guess probably as new as it was to a waitress who was shocked when I ordered a piece of apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese.
Her response was " That must be a Wisconsin thing, I'm from Milwaukee"
I did not know there was a difference from Wisconsin to Milwaukee!!!!
What we like the most is to take a triscuit or snack cracker of some kind, put a slice of summer sausage, a piece of sharp cheddar or Colby, and a slice of pickle. Load up a tray and pop some popcorn to go on the side and have a great snack when the family is all together.
Just as good without the meat if you don't have any and even great without the cracke. Just load the slice of pickle on the cheese.. yup, pickles and cheese. Since it started when we lived across the state line in Illinois, maybe it is an Illinois thing?
My mom use to tell me when she was growing up they use to eat a slice of pickle and Chocolate Cake..she was from South Dakota so maybe they did that a long time ago out west? ha...I never tried it, just did not sound like the two belonged together. lol
Our local Piggy Store ( as my kids call it) has them and we keep them in stock,,, My toddlers would eat thier weight in those baby dills if I would let them.
We did Christmas by my parents yesterday and there on the table i saw a huge tray of those bad boys just waiting to be eaten! Cheese and sausage and pickles...ahhhhhhhhhhh, life IS good! I always search out the jars in the store when i get them for the smallest pickles in there...those are the best!
I posted the passing an old friend in another thread but years ago his father (polish in decent) made his own pickles. He would use quart jars and because of the size pickle he used they only held 3-4 pickles. They were crunchie,sour and salty. In fact so sour that small spot just behind the lobe of your ears would pucker in so deep they would touch each other in the middle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! :lol:
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!
I spent most of my younger years eating Polski Wyrob baby dill pickles in Arkansas, and even after that living in NC, GA , FL and AL; the original ones were packed in Atkins AR, and even a lot of the ones I bought elsewhere, I think. When we drove Long Haul for 10 years, we were able to find them in the Wal-Mart Supercenters a lot of the time--I never paid any attention to what part of the country we were in. Then we came back home to AL, where I found them at Wal-Mart for a while; now I can't find them anywhere. I have even checked a few stores between here and AR when we go to see Mother. Does anybody know of a Southern store chain that carries them. They are really the only dill pickle I like. I believe I may have seen some of the name brand Polish Dill Spears, but that's not what I want; I want the baby Polish Dill kind. I found a jar in the back of my cabinet the other day, left from the ones we had gotten at Wal-Mart, that I did not know I still had. I will eat them slowly, because there are no more...that I can find. The ones I grew up on, had the traditional white label with only black text--generic-looking like I had always found in later years. I just checked this jar, and they are ones made by Pinnacle Foods in Cherry Hill, NC. Now that I read the other post about Pinnacle, maybe there is some hope. I also found a phone number on the label for comments, so when it is not the 4th of July, I will call it to see how to get some here. Maybe I could order them direct. I had already asked at the store about them keeping them in stock again, and it did not do any good. In case anyone else needs that phone number, it is 1-800-421-3265. I hope it is still good.
Last edited by mybabycakes; 07-04-2008 at 03:10 PM..
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As long as we are on the subject of pickles, does anyone remember "Mill's Dill" pickles? They were even better than Milwaukee brand or, maybe they were even made by Milwaukee????
I am a member who lives in Warren Michigan but moving to Sheboygan area soon and at my local store I just bought a large jar of Milwaukee dill pickles so we have them here in Michigan
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