food BBQ / Pulled Pork Sammiches - Pickles or No Pickles?

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

Just curious - I am a person who prefers pickles on my BBQ sammies. I find the tanginess of the pickle goes perfectly with the sweetness & savory notes of the BBQ sauce. 
 
While discussing with friends the other night this was a surprisingly polarizing topic.  Wondering what the general opinion on this was. 
 
to pickle, or not pickle your BBQ sammy - that IS the question! 
 

 

[JoynersHotPeppers]

For me it depends on the type of BBQ, that right there is a can of worms.

 

[sicman]

 

[neoguy]

For me, it depends on the pickles, I hate most pickles. I'm a pickle snob. The only ones I buy are made by Don Herman's. I'm not sure if that is local, regional or national. My pickles have to be garlicky and dilly, no sweet stuff for me.

 

[Scovie]

I would take them or leave them. If someone (or restaurant) thought pickles were a good idea, then sure! I can't say pickles yes or no 100% . I like variety. They definitely work on Cubano's!!!!!

 

[geeme]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Add pickles, that is. Like scovie, I like variety. Try something besides a standard pickle - pickled okra goes well, for example, and gives a different flavor profile.

 

[beerbreath81]

yes, everytime yes

 

[Scovie]

pickled okra goes well, for example, and gives a different flavor profile.

Damm that sounds good.

 

[Nightshade]

don't like pickles at all cant stand them but I absolutely love pickled peppers so I would use those instead

 

[Gotrox]

Depends on the sauce.
Lots of vinegar---no pickles.
 
Crunchy Kosher baby Dill's with a sweet BBQ sauce with no vinegar taste.
 
'Merican sweet and sour there.

 

[texas blues]

You can't go to a decent bbq joint here in Texas that doesn't have pickles on the side.
 
I like kosher style dills or bread & butter sweets.
 
Either/or load me up and I'll eat 'em on my sammich.

 

[jedisushi06]

What's good with it is my homemade Mourga Scorpion pickles.  Bling

 

[SL3]

I like just one small sliced pickle on mine. My wife she'll dump the meat out just to get a few more pickles in.

 

[ArkansasJack]

I want pickles on the side. When I lived in Oklahoma the BBQ joints served pickles as a side here in Arkansas they want slaw on there BBQ sandwiches not a pickle to be found in BBQ joints down here.

 

[The Count]

All the BBQ joints here serve pickle slices, especially with chopped beef sandwiches.  Pulled pork isn't super popuiar here, though I love making it myself and I usually pack on a few kosher dill slices.

 

[Penny]

Pickles...

 

[Jamison]

Why would you ruin a perfectly good pulled pork sammich with a stinkin pickle?  Slaw I understand but pickles,  c'mon people.  That poor pig had to die just to be served with a pickle.

 

[LUCKYDOG]

I have never had pickles with BBQ  guess I'll have to give it a go next buttage I've always been a coleslaw kinda guy

 

[Lucky Dog Hot Sauce]

I see it's exactly as polarizing here as it was among my friends - even split darn near. 
 
I agree it's a regional thing - and re: type of pickles and type of BBQ sauce that's an interesting point as well.  I typically go for the dill pickles and forgo the "bread & butter" pickles. SilverLeaf's bread and butter ghost pepper pickled garlic is heavenly though.  And pickled okra is ok, but I'm really referring to pickled cucumbers or what most people think of as traditional "pickles". 
 
Personally I prefer the tanginess of the pickle on my BBQ beef or pulled pork sammy regardless of the style of BBQ sauce. 

 

[The Hot Pepper]

Just curious - I am a person who prefers pickles on my BBQ sammies. I find the tanginess of the pickle goes perfectly with the sweetness & savory notes of the BBQ sauce. 

 
Pickles I can go for, or not, but BBQ sauce on fresh pulled pork? You damn Californians. Sauce covers up the meat. Hot sauce YES. BBQ sauce... Plah! Mostly because the stuff at restaurants is molasses sweet junk with liquid smoke. Still though. Hot sauce is wayyyyy better, and necessary. Surprised you'd use BBQ. Doesn't a local joint there even serve LDHS?