Pickled walnuts - are they nice? / what to do with them?

[MarineIguana]

Thanks to the joys of online shopping I have two large jars of pickled walnuts from Waitrose. (Don't know if I ordered them by mistake or it's their mistake but I can't be arsed to fix it...)

They look bloody scary though - weird dark floating lumps in brown juice. What are they for? Do you just eat them?

No pickled-walnut-scoffing MNers?

they taste like candles.

My mum loves them and gets through jars at christmas. I think that they are utterly vile though!

take small dolls head and take the top off as if it were a boiled egg

put 1 pickled walnut inside

re-enact scene where hannibal lecter eats drugged persons brain

They are absolutely LUSH!!!

Eat them with cold meats/cheese/salad meals. People often have them with the leftovers at Christmas.

Oh, I feel bereft now . DH and I are just about to eat the sort of meal that would be transformed by a pickled walnut.

Ooh you answered my thread! Thanks. And I couldn't have asked for four more completely different replies, but I'll have to try one now, just in case I love them. (Unfortunately I'm completely stuffed after large dinner, but will report back)

Pollywolly, no dolls here I'm afraid, it would have to be a cuddly monkey and recreate that apocryphal (?) Chinese (?) dish where they sit round and eat monkey brains.

If I could bibbity, I'd lob you my spare jar

ooo they're delicious... with a nice piece of manchego and some bread or crackers

Delicious with smoked meat of any kind, but venison if you can stretch to it - slice them though, then you see the pretty patterns inside rather than the 'lump of blackened poo' effect they give off whole.

Lovely with smoked chicken.

Chop 'em up and casserole them with venison. Delish.

My dad won't have shepherds pie without them!

at my obviously hazy recall of hannibal lecter films....