PICKLED ITEMS

Dear, Valued BTS Members

The Chair of the Pickled Items Follow-up Committee would like to thank all the valued BTS members who attended the September 23rd tasting. 12 pickled items were tasted, discussed and evaluated. 100 points were allocated for each pickled item based on: taste (50); after taste (10); texture (10); smell (10); visual appeal (10) and packaging (10).

The official results are listed below the pictures of the pickled items tasting.

The BTS Independent Evaluation and Adjudication Commission and the BTS Audit Board have sanctioned the public release of the results of the pickled items tasting. They are as follows:

1st 80.4/100 - Chili Radish by Kimlan


BTS member quotes:

• Chili hides the pickle
• Give me more
• Awesome!
• I had seconds!
• Good
• Promising

2nd 73.8/100 - Pickled Sliced Beets by Bick's

BTS member quotes:

• Wicked eh!
• Sweet smell
• I had seconds.......
• mmmm...beets
• Yum
• Mom would be happy

3rd 65.4/100 - Pickles by Mikado


BTS member quotes:

• Quality control problems
• Not my favourite
• Corn beef please!
• Bland and offensive. The Dupont Street of pickles
• Not as good as it looks
• Average

4th 63.2/100 - Mat Kimchi by Chongga


BTS member quotes:

• Looks like dead fish
• Korean workers unite!
• Looks like rotting lasagna
• Fake
• Not bad

5th 60.4/100 - Herring in Dill Marinade by Abba of Sweden


BTS member quotes:

• Better than fish
• 6 million Swedes cannot be wrong ... can they?
• Yuck
• Not as good as Swedish berries
• Nice smell

6th 58.2/100 - Pickled Leeks by Lotus Brand


BTS member quotes:

• symmetrical garnishes!
• Gwersee!
• Smells like my dentist
• Eww!
• disappointing

7th 57.4/100 - Tangy Trunips by Toorshi Foods


BTS member quotes:

• Need meat!
• Horseradish in this circumstance is way out of line
• If you like horseradish it is not bad
• Ehh!
• Roast beef
• Get rid of the horseradish
• Shit.......

8th 52.7/100 - Capers by Unico


BTS member quotes:

• Where is the smoked salmon?
• Factory smell, farm fresh flavour
• Salty!

9th 52.4/100 - Pickled Garlic Flower by August's Harvest


BTS member quotes:

• Don't roll over tonight
• This could have been much worse
• Not as good as Korean ones

10th 51.0/100 - Pickled Pattypan Squash by an unknown Moldova based manufacturer


BTS member quotes:

• I can taste the iron curtain
• Bad after taste
• It looks like a dead body
• Baby heads!
• Looks bad and goes down bad
• Looks stupid
• Not horrible
• Brain

11th 36.1/100 - Fresh Turmeric pickled in Brine by Deep Foods


BTS member quotes:

• Ewww!
• Woody, a bit like varnish
• Unpleasant
• Looks like Hickory Sticks
• Sucks!
• Wow, it sucks!
• Oh fuck!
• Bad!!!
• Nasty!

12th 18.6/100 - Pickled Prune by Pat Chun International


BTS member quotes:

• Eyeballs
• I am Chinese and it is gross!!
• The low point of the night
• GROSS!!!!
• Everything except good
• Too salty
• The long history of famine in China explains this

The Chair of the Pickled Items Follow-up Committee would like to extend its appreciation to all valued BTs members who made the culinary exploration of pickled items a success.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting Society