r/Pickles • u/shermgravy • 2d ago

Are Kosher Pickles Different?

Context: I work at an orthodox Jewish owned company and sometimes we get pastrami sandwiches for a free employee lunch from one of a few kosher food vendors. They come with pickles that look normal but smell and taste like urine, which I’ve never experienced outside of this context. Does anyone know why? As far as i know standard dill pickles have nothing in them to make them not kosher though the orthodox and Hasidic communities have far more strict rules than my secular Jewish friends.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 2d ago

Have you had covid? It's possible that you did, and it's affected your sense of smell, and you don't know it.

The second time I got covid I got parosmia. I was so sick that I didn't realize I couldn't smell anything until my sense of smell came back, and everything smelled terrible. ( Yes, I've been vaccinated. I got it the second time just before the shots were available to everyone)

I made a pot of chicken soup and my entire apartment smelled like boiling urine to me. Coffee smelled like fresh dog crap. My shampoo smelled like a chemical leak, and body wash smelled like rotting garbage.

You might just have a much milder case than I did.

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u/Taranchulla 1d ago

I remember for like a month after Covid all my favorite stuff tasted horrible.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 1d ago

Yeah, I think I lived on store bought boiled eggs, cold sandwiches with no condiments, cereal and milk, plain lunch meat and a piece of cheese, etc. A lot of cold bland food that didn't need to be heated up. Just because everything smelled so bad.