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The Boston Globe's food section got a bunch of people to taste test six brands of kosher dill pickles and give their opinion. The comments for Claussen range from "tastes like it came out of storage" to "an oyster in a pickle's body." And mind you, Claussen was the winner of the taste test.

The Globe also tested Vlasic, Mt. Olive, Boar's Head, Ba-Tampte, and Cains, and none of the brands blew the tasters away. Every single pickle tasted got a lot of negative comments, it's just that Claussen got the least amount of negative comments.

Personally, I like a lot of these pickles. I've never tasted Ba-Tampte, but the comment that it tasted like "gasoline" reminded me of one of my favorite Andy Griffith Show episodes, where Aunt Bee makes the pickles that no one likes. What do you buy when you want a dill pickle?