baked beans in my joel hermitcraft season 11??? thank you

i miss them badly

i wasnt going to put this on twt but its whatever

After the Apple Pie baked beans cinnarama, I was concerned about the Dill Pickle. This was actually the one I had the highest hopes for but as you can see above, it comes out of the can a bit...green. Disconcerting.

I do not like dill pickles for a number of reasons: the texture is off-putting to me, I don't like wet vegetables on sandwiches, and I hate the flavor -- I like pickled eggs and pickled onions but pickled cucumber always tastes like rancid butter to me. On the other hand I love dill pickle flavoring -- on chips or popcorn, for example. The flavoring is usually dill and vinegar powder, sometimes with onion and garlic, so it's like an extra flavorful salt and vinegar seasoning. I make my own for when I make seasoned cashews, and I did an extensive test-kitchen for the best blend, so I thought I knew every way this seasoning could go wrong.

I've never eaten baked beans that were just...bitter. There was a definite dill flavor, but underlying the entire bite, from first taste to aftertaste, was an almost acrid bitterness. It was mild, certainly not overwhelming like the apple pie flavor's cinnamon, but still very unpleasant.

Part of this project, however, is trying to find a way to make these flavors palatable. Not just making the beans edible, enough barbecue sauce would do that, but fixing them so that they have a better version of the flavor they're meant to represent. Both fruit/sweet/cinnamon and dill/savory can work with baked beans, it's just a question of how to get there.

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