A pickle

[Muddays]

A question that's driving a couple mad here. I cannot fathom the point of putting Branston pickle in the fridge yet every time I look in the cupboard for it, sure enough, my husband has put it in the fridge. It's pickled, hence preserved surely?

I think the jars of things like that often say put in the fridge?

True, but growing up with said pickle, we never got ill because it was in the cupboard.

You asked why your husband puts it in the fridge. It’s because it says so on the bottle!

It's PICKLED!!!!

I agree, but possibly today's pickles have less salt and sugar than in days of yore, which would affect the keeping qualities.

It's a pickle indeed, but I put it in the fridge anyway.

Thinking about it, it's cause I treat it the same with eg jam, butter, ect

i know you're supposed to keep pickle and ketchup in the fridge, and I do..but ice cold ketchup or pickle is just not as nice as the room temperature stuff I remember from when I was a kid and we kept it in the cupboard.

@EauNeu oh Yegads! I'd forgotten about the ketchup in fridge issue too! Aaaarrgh!!

I keep ketchup and pickle in the fridge because i think they are much nicer cold.

Pickle, salad cream and tomato ketchup all stay on the larder shelf. Opened jam goes in the fridge as I've had a couple of instances where the jam gets a thin layer of mould on it, never used to until a few years ago.

@Muddays just read the jar of branston pickle and it does say keep refrigerated when opened.

I prefer cold condiments/relishes/pickles

But the formulas have changed and they need to be kept in the fridge now.

@Pixiedust1234 ahaah! Finally, some reason amidst the label reading prefects.
Although
@pncr 'the formulas have changed'... how and what don't I know here?

The amount of sugar and salt in lots of food stuffs has been reduced due to wanting them to be healthier. Those things are natural preservatives.

The manufacturers state these have to be refrigerated once opened simply because they are arse covering themselvesfrom legal action, not because the items actually need to be refrigerated. Basically they don't trust the public to not eat spoiled items because the public left them in the sun instead of a cool larder.

Its the same thought process why manufacturers also state irons may become hot or peanut packets may contain nuts.